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What everyone is saying about Shehan Karunatilaka's Booker Prize triumph
The international reaction to Shehan Karunatilka’s Booker Prize win has been universally positive. Here, we round up the best responses
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Reading guide: Possession by A.S. Byatt
Winning the Booker Prize in 1990, Possession follows two modern-day scholars as they uncover a secret affair between famous fictional poets, all the while falling in love themselves.
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Book of the Month: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
In 2020, The Memory Police was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. It’s a haunting fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss
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Join the winners of the International Booker Prize for a live Q&A and special film screening
We’ve teamed up with MUBI, Foyles and The Garden Cinema in London on a special event – and to match great movies to the books on the International Booker Prize 2023 shortlist
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The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran
Set across four decades, from 1979 to 2009, this is a polyphonic novel of one family’s flight from and return to Iran
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Offshore
The shortest novel to win the Booker Prize, Penelope Fitzgerald offers a delightful glimpse into the workings of the eccentric London community living on houseboats on Battersea Reach
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Sarah Bernstein on Marie NDiaye: ‘Her characters and settings remain opaque, they keep their secrets’
We asked the authors on the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist to tell us about their inspirations. Here, Sarah Bernstein, author of Study for Obedience, explains how she drew from Marie NDiaye’s pervasive atmosphere of the uncanny
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An extract from His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Graeme Macrae Burnet’s historical novel tells the story behind a fictional 19th-century triple murder in a remote crofting community. Read an extract from our September Book of the Month here
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Georgi Gospodinov's Time Shelter playlist: the prize-winning novel in 12 songs
Georgi Gospodinov, winner of the International Booker Prize 2023, takes us through the songs and music that inspired his novel Time Shelter
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The Booker Prize 1985
The year in which the pipe-smoking Kiwi Keri Hulme won the prize with her one and only novel, The Bone People. It was a win that baffled some in the tight-knit literary world.