The International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize, known as the Bukhman International Booker Prize from 2026 onwards) is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom. The introduction of the International Prize to complement the Man Booker Prize, as the Booker Prize was then known, was announced in June 2004. Sponsored by the Man Group, from 2005 until 2015 the award was given every two years to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English translation. It rewarded one author's "continued creativity, development and overall contribution to fiction on the world stage", and was a recognition of the writer's body of work rather than any one title.

Since 2016, the award has been given annually to a single novel or collection of short stories, translated into English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland, with a £50,000 prize for the winning title, shared equally between author and translator. From 2027 onwards, the prize will be doubled to £100,000.

Crankstart, the charitable foundation of Sir Michael Moritz and his wife Harriet Heyman, began supporting The Booker Prizes on 1 June 2019. From this date, the prizes were known as The Booker Prize and The International Booker Prize. Of their support for The Booker Prize Foundation and the prizes, Moritz commented: "Neither of us can imagine a day where we don’t spend time reading a book. The Booker Prizes are ways of spreading the word about the insights, discoveries, pleasures and joy that spring from great fiction". Bukhman Philanthropies, the charitable foundation of Dmitry Bukhman and his wife Daria, began supporting the International Booker Prize in July 2026, and the prize was renamed to the Bukhman International Booker Prize.

Whereas the Man Booker Prize was open only to writers from the Commonwealth, Ireland, and Zimbabwe, the International Prize was open to writers of any nationality whose work was available in English, including translations. The award was worth £60,000 and given every two years to a living author for their entire body of literature, in a similar way to the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Man Booker International Prize also allowed for a separate award for translating. If applicable, the winning author could direct the organization to present a prize sum of £15,000 to their translator.

The 2005 inaugural winner of the international prize was Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. Praising its concerted judgement, the journalist Hephzibah Anderson noted that the Man Booker International Prize was "fast becoming the more significant award, appearing an ever more competent alternative to the Nobel".

In July 2015 it was announced that the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize would be disbanded and its prize money would be folded into the Man Booker International Prize. Starting with the 2016 award, the Man Booker International Prize became annual and changed its remit to perform the same role as the Independent prize: awarding books of fiction translated into English, in order to encourage the publishing and reading of quality works in translation and to highlight the work of translators. The £50,000 prize is split between author and translator. Each shortlisted author and translator receives £2,500. Judges select a longlist of 12 or 13 books in March ("the Booker Dozen"), followed by a shortlist of six in April, with the winner announced in May.

In July 2026, it was announced that Bukhman Philanthropies would sponsor the prize for the next 10 years. The prize was renamed the Bukhman International Booker Prize, and the winning prize was increased from £50,000 to £100,000. The shortlist prize remained the same.

The inaugural Man Booker International Prize was judged by John Carey (chair), Alberto Manguel and Azar Nafisi. The nominees were announced on 2 June 2005 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare was named the inaugural International Prize winner in 2005. Head judge, Professor John Carey said Kadare is "a universal writer in the tradition of storytelling that goes back to Homer." Kadare said he was "deeply honoured" at being awarded the prize. Kadare was also able to select a translator to receive an additional prize of £15,000. The writer received his award in Edinburgh on 27 June.