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 sponzoriše britanski dnevnik Indipendent, dodeljuje se za roman živog pisca koji je preveden na engleski jezik sa bilo kog stranog jezika i štampan u Velikoj Britaniji u poslednjih godinu dana.