The 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize has been awarded to Jenny Erpenbeck and Susan Bernofsky for The End of Days, the first translation from German to win since 2002. The prize of £10,000 is shared equally between author and translator, acknowledging the excellence of both. In her acceptance speech Jenny Erpenbeck said of Bernofsky’s translation, ‘They’re her words, and it’s still my book.’ Boyd Tonkin, the chair of judges, commented, ‘This is a novel to enjoy, to cherish and to revisit many times.’

The other shortlisted novels were By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, translated by Jethro Soutar;  Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel; F by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Carol Brown Janeway; While the Gods were Sleeping by Erwin Mortier, translated by Paul Vincent; and In the Morning was the Sea by Tomás González, translated by Frank Wynne.