The Harvey Award for Best International Book, established in 2018 as part of the Harvey Awards, is an annual American award for comic books written outside of the United States. Prior to 2020, the award was known as the Harvey Award for Best European Book. Per the Harvey Awards website, the Best International Book Award honors the "Best international material translated in to English."
Recipients +Best International Book winners and finalistsYearTitleAuthorTranslatorPublisherRef.2018California Dreamin': Cass Elliot Before the Mamas & the PapasFirst SecondAudubon: On the Wings of the World and Jerémie RoyerNobrowFlight of the RavenIDWEl Torres and Jesús Alonso IglesiasMagnetic Press and Javier OlivaresFantagraphics2019Waves and Carole MaurelArchaiaCorto MalteseIDW PublishingO JosephineJasonFantagraphicsRadiantVIZ MediaRed UltramarineFantagraphics2020Grass Drawn & QuarterlyFantagraphicsPortrait of a Drunk, Florent Ruppert, and JérômeFantagraphicsStay and Hubert ChevillardMagnetic PressYear of the RabbitDrawn & Quarterly2021Moms Drawn & QuarterlyDrawn & QuarterlyFactory Summers and Rob AspinallDrawn & QuarterlyPaul At Home and Rob AspinallDrawn & Quarterly Fantagraphics2022Sweet Paprika Image ComicsBallad for Sophie and Juan CaviaTop Shelf ProductionsCastaways and Laura PerezDark Horse ComicsThis is How I Disappear and Bronwyn HaslamDrawn & Quarterly Drawn & QuarterlyYellow Cab and Christophe ChaboutéIDW Publishing2023Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part 1 and Juanjo Guarnido and Brandon KanderDark Horse BooksAlice on the Run: One Child's Journey Through the Rwandan Civil WarLife DrawnAlways Never and Clemence SapinDark Horse BooksAshesTop Shelf Productions and Jérôme MulotFantagraphicsTiki: A Very Ruff Year, Fred Leclerc, and Lucie FirouLife Drawn2024Blacksad Vol. 7 and Juanjo Guarnido and Brandon KanderEurope ComicsMurawiecDrawn & QuarterlyShubeik LubeikPantheonFairsquare GraphicsTransitions: A Mother's JourneyTop Shelf ProductionsLayersFirst SecondInside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes and Benoit DahanTitan2025Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part 2 and Juanjo Guarnido and Brandon KanderDark Horse BooksMothballsFantagraphicsMuybridge and Rob AspinallDrawn & QuarterlySundayFantagraphics, from the novel by Cormac McCarthyAbrams2026AnimanDrawn & QuarterlyBuff SoulFantagraphicsMary PainDrawn & QuarterlyNocturnosFantagraphicsTiodora's Letters: An Enslaved Woman's Fight for Family and FreedomFantagraphicsWitchcraftFantagraphics
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