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She discusses the challenges she faced working on her translation during the pandemic and being a champion of Indonesian literature.

Sophie Ward, the author of Love and Other Thought Experiments, talks to the Booker Prizes after being longlisted for the 2020 prize.  
 

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

‘He’s barely twenty years of age, but he goes shuffling down the hallway in his stocking feet with all the spryness of a care-home resident’

‘I liked the idea of the book being somehow spoken, as to a friend’

‘I wanted to write something that tried to do justice to the ordinary strangeness of our lives in time’

In modern-day Caracas, a part-time teacher is tasked with turning a great family home into a shelter for the dogs left behind by the elites who have fled the city

She discusses why the subjects at the heart of The Book of Mother resonated with her and how reading memoirs set in Paris prepared her for the translation.

The author of James, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, on how he sees himself as being in conversation with the creator of Huckleberry Finn, and the skills he learnt from reading Tristram Shandy

‘I like it when fiction respects the reality that no one truly knows anyone else’