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Booker books about India by women writers

Date: 27/05/2025
Type: Feature

Eight Booker-nominated books about India by women writers

If you’ve been inspired by Heart Lamp to seek out more fiction about life in India from a female perspective, here’s our selection of Booker-nominated works

Date: 27/03/2024
Type: Feature

12 of the best Booker-nominated books by Latin American authors

With four books by Latin American authors on this year’s International Booker Prize longlist, here are a dozen more for your TBR pile

Date: 03/05/2024
Type: Feature

Should Martin Amis have won the Booker Prize?

While the other members of his 1980s gang – Barnes, McEwan, Rushdie and Ishiguro – have all bagged a Booker and other awards, Amis remained relatively trophy-less. So why did the big literary prizes elude him?

Date: 03/07/2023
Type: Feature

Reading guide: The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith

Use our comprehensive reading guide to explore the winner of the International Booker Prize 2016, The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith

Date: 04/09/2023
Type: Feature

Reading guide: His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2016, His Bloody Project reveals the provisional nature of truth through a fictional 19th-century triple murder in a remote Scottish crofting community

Date: 05/09/2024
Type: Book

Creation Lake

A woman is caught in the crossfire between the past and the future in this part-spy novel, part-profound treatise on human history

Date: 06/02/2025
Type: Feature

Damion Searls: ‘Nothing is untranslatable. Anything left untranslated is what you’ve decided doesn’t matter anyway’

In this extract from his book The Philosophy of Translation, the International Booker Prize-shortlisted translator explains how the boundaries of language are always permeable

An illustration with giant books arranged into playful situations to become a climbing frame and glider-style plane, with a character climbing and a character flying. The sky is orange and the ground is green. There are trees made of books, too.

Type: Content Page

The Children’s Booker Prize

The prize, to be awarded annually from 2027 and supported by AKO Foundation, will celebrate the best contemporary fiction for children aged eight to 12 years old, written in or translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland

Type: Press release

The Booker Prize 2025: judges announced and submissions now open

The judges for the Booker Prize 2025 are revealed today, 10 December, 2024, as the prize opens for submissions from publishers

Date: 05/04/2023
Type: Feature

Reading guide: Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel

Explore HIlary Mantel’s 2005 longlisted novel Beyond Black through our comprehensive guide, which includes questions and discussion points