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Composite featuring head shots of literary translators John Bengan, Christian Jil R. Benitez, Pauline Fan, Mayada Ibrahim, Najlaa Eltom, Tiffany Tsao and Anam Zafar, presented against a bright orange background featuring a map of the world graphic.

Date: 05/09/2025
Type: Feature

Winners announced for inaugural PEN Presents x International Booker Prize programme

The scheme supports translators from the Global Majority, and the six winning projects represent five languages and regions

Type: Press release

The Booker Prize Foundation announces the Children’s Booker Prize

The Booker Prize Foundation today (Friday, 24 October 2025) announces the Children’s Booker Prize supported by AKO Foundation, the first prize for children’s fiction from the charity that awards the prestigious Booker Prize and International Booker Prize

Fresco of angel with book in the Cattedrala di Santa Croce by Giovanni Secchi

Date: 19/12/2022
Type: Feature

The Gate of Angels: A Booker Prize quiz for Christmas

Get ready to test your wits as our resident quizmaster presents a bumper Booker-themed quiz for Christmas. Have you got what it takes to pass the test?

Date: 03/05/2023
Type: Feature

Book of the Month: The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing

In 1985, Doris Lessing was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her compelling contemporary satire. Find out more about the novel here.

Type: Author

Deborah Smith

Deborah Smith FRSL is a British translator of Korean fiction. She translated Man Booker International Prize 2016-winning novel The Vegetarian by Korean author Han Kang

The Booker Prize 2025 judges - Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Chris Power, Roddy Doyle, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kiley Reid - sitting together on a yellow velvet sofa and burgundy velvet armchair

Date: 29/07/2025
Type: Feature

How our prize judges are chosen: ‘It’s the group dynamic that matters’

Gaby Wood, Chief Executive of the Booker Prize Foundation, reveals the qualities we are looking for when selecting our judges

Date: 05/06/2023
Type: Feature

Book of the Month: The Long Song by Andrea Levy

Set during the turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed, The Long Song is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it

Date: 17/10/2022
Type: Feature

An extract from The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

Winner of the Booker Prize 2022, Shehan Karunatilaka’s rip-roaring epic is a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war. Read our extract from the book’s first section

Date: 25/02/2025
Type: Feature

An extract from Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix, translated by Helen Stevenson

November 2021: an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the UK capsizes in the Channel, causing the deaths of 27 people on board. How and why did it happen?

Date: 27/02/2023
Type: Feature

Book of the Month: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Hanya Yanagihara’s deft depiction of heartbreak becomes a dark examination of the tyranny of memory, the limits of human endurance and the power of friendship