Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, author Clemens Meyer talks about While We Were Dreaming in an exclusive interview
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Benjamin Wood interview: ‘I used to be fussy about the conditions I needed for writing, but then I had children’
The author of Seascraper, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, discusses feeling compelled to write about the region where he grew up, and reveals that he wrote the novel on a churchyard bench
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Kiran Desai interview: ‘I wanted to write a present-day romance with an old-fashioned beauty’
The author of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, talks about her love of The Wind in the Willows and how Latin American writers have influenced her
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Meet the official Booker Prize book clubs as they prepare to read the 2022 shortlist
We have partnered with the Reading Agency to select six groups who will each be reading a different book on the 2022 shortlist, to compete for places at our winner ceremony
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Djamel White interview: 'All I really need is a quiet room, my laptop and a little bit of self-esteem'
The author of All Them Dogs, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026, on writing from his bed and falling in love with books before he could read
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Makenna Goodman interview: 'I wanted to explore how we govern, punish, teach and love'
The author of Helen of Nowhere, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026, on the Helens that inspired her, writing by hand and her fantasy reading spot
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An interview with Solvej Balle and Barbara J. Haveland, author and translator of On the Calculation of Volume I
With On the Calculation of Volume I shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025, we spoke to its author and translator about time-loop stories, classical Japanese prose and their favourite Booker-nominated books
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An interview with Mircea Cărtărescu and Sean Cotter, author and translator of Solenoid
With Solenoid longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025, we spoke to its author and translator about how the book ‘wrote itself’, and the authors that have inspired them
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What's on my bookshelf: Anton Hur
The translator of Cursed Bunny reveals the books that have shaped and inspired his literary life.
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Samantha Harvey interview: ‘I wanted to write a space pastoral’
The author of Orbital, winner of the Booker Prize 2024, on how her novel was 25 years in the making, and the work of translated fiction that haunts her