Time Shelter wins the International Booker Prize 2023

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As we approach this year’s International Booker Prize ceremony, we spoke to the authors and translators about their novels on this year’s shortlist. Here’s what they said…

We believe there is a natural union between the best international fiction and international film, so we asked our friends at MUBI to recommend six great movies to complement this year’s International Booker shortlist

A year after Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell won for Tomb of Sand, they talk about how the prize has brought them closer – and expanded their world 

The International Booker Prize celebrates global works of translated fiction and highlights the symbiotic relationship between translators and authors. But how do translators work? We asked three of them…  

We asked the authors and translators longlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize how it feels to be nominated, how they worked together on the English edition and why we should celebrate translated fiction

One of the most important writers of the 20th century, Doris Lessing wrote over 70 works, covering a huge range of themes and styles, including three novels that were nominated for a Booker Prize. Here, we select some of her best writing

Its 1980s setting might seem dated, but Doris Lessing’s caustic satire – our Book of the Month for May – still reads as a bracing antidote to political righteousnes

Doris Lessing’s 1985 novel follows group of radicals in London and the woman who is slowly drawn into their terrorist activities. Read the opening pages from our May Book of the Month here

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1985, Doris Lessing’s satire pits radical ideology against a bourgeois upbringing, and explores the contradictions and self-deception at the heart of political idealism

Data compiled for the Booker Prize Foundation shows that readers of translated fiction in the UK are significantly younger than fiction readers generally – and that’s not all…

In our monthly series, ‘TBR: The Booker Revisited’, Lucy Scholes shines a spotlight on hidden gems from the Booker Library. This month, she picks out Ladivine, an unsettling masterpiece from the precociously talented French writer Marie NDiaye

In this personal essay, Colin Crummy, who grew up in South Armagh, explains how Anna Burns’ Booker winner held up a mirror to a world of suspicion, surveillance and groupthink 

To mark the 10th anniversary of her Booker win, Eleanor Catton and her editor Max Porter discuss the book’s exhilarating journey towards publication and the prize

Sales of translated fiction continue to rise and even A-listers can’t stop talking about their favourite titles. We’ve rounded up the International Booker-nominated books with the most famous of fans

We asked each of the shortlisted authors and translators for the International Booker Prize which books have inspired them the most
 

From classics to contemporary, we’ve compiled a selection of Booker-nominated novels that make a big impact in around 200 pages or less. They may be small, but they’re perfectly formed

Looking for your next high-quality box set or movie? More than 50 Booker Prize nominated titles have been adapted for the big and small screen - discover them all here