But from this year, it will be presented annually for a single work of fiction that has been translated into English and published in Britain.
Once the poor relation in the English-language literary world, translations are becoming increasingly popular.
New research by Nielsen for the prize organisers revealed physical book sales of translated fiction in Britain rose 96% between 2001 and 2016,despite the market as a whole falling over that period
Translated fiction is still a very small genre, representing just 1.5% of fiction and 3.5% of literary fiction, but it provided 5% of fiction sales and percent of literary fiction sales last year
Growth in translated Korea fiction in Britain was particularly strong. AFP