London, March 31 -- Indian-origin Padma Viswanathan, a Canadian-American writer and translator, has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026.

She is among those been shortlisted for her English translation of Brazilian author Ana Paula Maia's novel 'On Earth As It Is Beneath.'

The shortlist of six books was chosen by the 2026 judging panel, chaired by award-winning author Natasha Brown and includes award-winning Indian novelist and columnist Nilanjana S. Roy.

Formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize, the honour is presented annually for a work of fiction that was originally written in a language other than English, then translated into English and published in the UK and or Ireland. The winner of the 50,000-...