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Interviews with the International Booker Prize 2024 shortlistees
We asked the authors and translators shortlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize how it feels to be nominated, how they worked together on the English editions – and about their favourite books
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About us
The Booker Prize Foundation exists to promote and celebrate the art and value of literature for the public benefit
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The Booker Prize 1982
The question posed by Thomas Keneally’s win was whether Schindler’s Ark was a proper work of fiction or an imaginative piece of non-fiction. Fiction said the judges, resoundingly.
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The Booker Prize 1997
Nearly 30 years after the prize’s inception, Arundhati Roy became the first Indian winner, with her debut novel. Roy, sidetracked by other things, took 20 years to release her second.
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The International Booker Prize
The International Booker Prize is awarded annually for the best work of fiction from around the world which has been translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland
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The Booker Prize
Founded in the UK in 1969, the Booker Prize is the world’s most significant award for a single work of fiction
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From author interviews to actor readings, from memorable speeches to classic moments from the Booker Prize’s history, you’ll find the best of our videos here
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Multiple winners and nominees of the Booker Prize
The Booker Prize celebrates the finest in fiction. Discover the authors who have won the prize more than once, and those that have had multiple nominations