The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (1990âÂÂ2015) was a British literary award. It was inaugurated by British newspaper The Independent to honour contemporary fiction in translation in the United Kingdom. The award was first launched in 1990 and ran for five years before falling into abeyance. It was revived in 2001 with the financial support of Arts Council England. Beginning in 2011 the administration of the prize was taken over by BookTrust, but retaining the "Independent" in the name. In 2015, the award was disbanded in a "reconfiguration" in which it was merged with the Man Booker International Prize.
Entries (fiction or short stories) were published in English translation in the UK in the year preceding the award by a living author. The prize acknowledged both the winning novelist and translator, each being awarded ã5,000 and a magnum of champagne from drinks sponsor Champagne Taittinger.
Prize in abeyance.
No prize awarded from 1996 through 2000. Merged with the International Booker Prize after the award of the 2015 prize.