Interview highlights

Want to find out more about the authors who have won or been nominated for the Booker Prize and International Booker Prize? We've spoken to them to find out how they researched and wrote their best-known books

Here you’ll find a wide range of interviews with authors and translators, from Q&As with longlisted writers to in-depth video interviews with famous winners

The Booker Prize 2022

Meet the authors: interviews with the Booker Prize 2022 longlisted writers

Join us in conversation with the authors of this year’s most remarkable works of fiction, as they reveal the inspiration behind their longlisted work, their writing processes and what the nomination means to them

Inside the authors' archives

Scene from the 2012 film Life of Pi, directed and produced by Ang Lee

Yann Martel on writing Life of Pi: 'You want a sense that it was written in one breath'

In an exclusive interview, the 2002 Booker Prize winner talks about the unique planning process behind his best-known novel — and making the fantastic feel believable

A still from Schindler's List showing a girl in a red coat

'I knew where the good stuff was': Thomas Keneally on how he researched and wrote Schindler's Ark

Sarah Waters sits in front of bookshelves and a window.

Fingersmith at 20: inside the archive with Sarah Waters

Rooney Mara as the young Roseanne in the 2016 film adaptation of The Secret Scripture

The secrets of Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture

Exit West audiobook cover on a red background.

The Making of Mohsin Hamid's Exit West

Mapping The Garden of Evening Mists

Anita Desai: 'I thought the book would seem ghostly now, but it's all coming around again'

The 2022 International Booker Prize: meet the authors

Discover the shortlist: Geetanjali Shree, ‘As a writer, stories imbue your senses’

Geetanjali Shree tells us the importance of a global worldview in literature.

Discover the shortlist: Bora Chung, ‘This is the nicest dream I ever had'

Discover the shortlist: Olga Tokarczuk, ‘The encyclopedia showed me the enormity of the world’

Discover the shortlist: Jon Fosse, ‘I felt I had something crucial to say’

Discover the shortlist: Mieko Kawakami, ‘I grew up in a house with no books’

Discover the shortlist: Claudia Piñeiro, ‘I’ve always been very rebellious’

The 2022 International Booker Prize: meet the translators

Discover the shortlist: Daisy Rockwell, ‘I think of the translator and the author as ballroom dancers’

Daisy Rockwell details the rich and diverse world of South Asian literature and the liberation she feels while experimenting with language.

Discover the shortlist: Anton Hur, ‘My most marketable skillset is translation'

Discover the shortlist: Frances Riddle, ‘Literary translation felt impossibly out of reach’

Discover the shortlist: Sam Bett, ‘Books can create a whole other universe’

Discover the shortlist: Jennifer Croft, ‘Translation is an apprenticeship in creative writing’

Discover the shortlist: Damion Searls, ‘Septology has one of the great dogs in literature’

Discover the shortlist: David Boyd, ‘In translation, you have to inhabit the story’

The 2021 Booker Prize: meet the authors

Damon Galgut Q&A

‘In film, the point-of-view jumps and changes all the time - why not in a novel?’

Patricia Lockwood looking at camera while holding her book No One Is Talking About This.

Patricia Lockwood Q&A

Richard Powers in a yellow shirt leaning against a wall.

Richard Powers Q&A

Nadifa Mohamed author of The Fortune Men

Nadifa Mohamed Q&A

Maggie Shipstead Q&A

Anuk Arudpragasam Q&A

Interviews with Booker winners

Hilary Mantel Q&A

The two-time Booker Prize winner sat down with us on being longlisted for The Mirror & the Light.