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Ever wanted to delve inside the minds of some of the world's greatest authors?

Browse our interviews with authors who have either been nominated for the Booker Prize or International Booker Prize. Including a few who have won more than once.

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The Booker Prize Indie Bookshop Spotlight competition 2024: Meet our winning booksellers

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The 2024 shortlistees on the book that challenged their worldview

Author, Sarah Waters

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Sarah Waters interview: ‘I turned my night terrors into a ghost story’

Booker Prize 2024 shortlisted authors

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Interviews with the Booker Prize 2024 shortlistees

Author Jon Fosse

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Jon Fosse interview: ‘I never had an intention to be an author’

Booker Prize 2024 authors

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Interviews with the Booker Prize 2024 longlistees

My friends - Hisham Matar

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Hisham Matar interview: ‘I carried this novel in my head for a decade’

Playground - Richard Powers

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Richard Powers interview: ‘As a child, I was sure I was going to be an oceanographer'

Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner

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Rachel Kushner interview: ‘Reading Alice in Wonderland felt like a secret being deposited’

Enlightenment by Sarah Perry

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Sarah Perry interview: ‘Every writer can learn from the plotting of a good crime novelist’

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Rita Bullwinkel interview: ‘I obsessively competed in every sport I could find'

This Strange Eventful History - Claire Messud

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Claire Messud interview: ‘I wanted to explore the history of my father’s family’

Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital

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Samantha Harvey interview: ‘I wanted to write a space pastoral’

Wandering Stars - Tommy Orange

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Tommy Orange interview: ‘I didn’t fall in love with reading until my mid-20s'

Wild Houses - Colin Barret

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Colin Barrett interview: 'Becoming a writer was always an abstract notion'

Held - Anne Michaels

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Anne Michaels interview: ‘Every poem is a poem of witness’

James - Percival Everett

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Percival Everett interview: ‘I hope that I have written the novel that Twain did not’

The Safe Keep - Yael Van Der Wouden

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Yael van der Wouden interview: ‘For a long time, my relationship to literature was pretty flat’

Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood

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Charlotte Wood interview: ‘I wanted nothing trivial, nothing insincere in this book’

Australian writer Richard Flanagan

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Richard Flanagan interview: Winning the Booker was ‘a catastrophe of good fortune’