The prize, sponsored by Britain's The Independent daily, honours a work of fiction by a living author which has been translated into English from any other language and published in the United Kingdom in the last year.
Nagrada, koju sponzorira britanski dnevnik The Independent, dodjeljuje se za roman živog pisca koji je preveden na engleski jezik s bilo kojeg stranog jezilka i tiskan u Velikoj Britaniji u posljednjih godinu dana.