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The linguist tells us about the books that have shaped her formidable career. 

At Night All Blood is Black, written by David Diop and translated by Anna Moschovakis, is announced as the winner of the 2021 International Booker Prize

‘She has imagined this moment of return many times over the past decade, recreating every detail of the house as she approaches it’

‘‘White men,’ Lenny told him, those eyes sparkling, ‘that’s who. White men have it hardest these days’’

‘Yeva saw the way the high-heeled stranger peered at the piles of clothes strewn over the bench seat of the driver’s cabin, the crumpled up sleeping bag, the slimy yellowed mouth retainer on the dash. The woman’s face sank with pity over Yeva’s itinerant life’

Funny, propulsive, obsessive and ecstatic, Headshot is equal parts subtle and intense, as it brings us to the sidelines of the boxing ring and above and beyond it

In 1990, A.S. Byatt won the Booker Prize for Possession, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. The novel was a literary sensation