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Find out more about the authors in the Booker Library with these in-depth features, which reveal how their books were written and explain why they endure

Essays, interviews and speeches: these features help enrich our understanding and deepen our appreciation of the books in the Booker Library.

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What everyone is saying about the Booker Prize 2022 longlist

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Book recommendations

The Booker Prize guide to... dystopian fiction

Daisy Rockwell, translator, and Geetanjali Shree author of Tomb of Sand

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Why Tomb of Sand won the 2022 International Booker Prize and why you should read it

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The International Booker Prize effect: how Tomb of Sand made literary history

V.S. Naipaul

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Why those who dismiss V.S. Naipaul as a defender of colonialism should take a closer look at his writing

Shortlisted translators, 2022 International Booker Prize

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The art of translation

Chinua Achebe

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Elaine Showalter celebrates the work of Chinua Achebe

Keri Hulme 1987

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How Keri Hulme’s outsider story became one of the Booker Prize's most controversial winners

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The secrets of Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture

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Video

Fingersmith at 20: inside the archive with Sarah Waters

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Interview

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Mapping The Garden of Evening Mists

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Interview

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The Making of Mohsin Hamid's Exit West

Molly Keane at the Booker Prize ceremony 1981

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Molly Keane's 1981 Diary

Gaby Wood

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A glimpse behind the scenes: The Booker Prize at 50

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