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Tony Damer
Tony Damer was Treasurer of the Booker Prize Foundation, a post to which he was appointed after five years of providing the board with management accounting support.
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Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Antonia Lloyd-Jones was born in Oxford, England, in March 1962
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Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires in 1948 and is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor and a former Director of the National Library of Argentina.
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Victoria Glendinning
Victoria Glendinning is a novelist and biographer - and the only writer to have won the Whitbread Prize for biography twice, in 1983 for her studies of Vita Sackville-West and subsequently in 1992 for her biography of Anthony Trollope.
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Rachel Joyce on A Spool of Blue Thread: ‘Anne Tyler’s skill is in laying skeletons bare’
Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, shares her admiration for Anne Tyler’s 2015 novel, where the ordinary becomes universal and the mundane is transformed with razor-sharp insight
In a fascinating combination of dreams and dossier facts, Ismail Kadare issues a meditation on Soviet Russia, authoritarianism, power structures and a period of great writers
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An extract from The Other Name: Septology I - II by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls
In the first volume of his Septology sequence, Jon Fosse presents us with a meditative portrait of an ageing painter – and his doppelganger
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Discover the shortlist: Daisy Rockwell, ‘I think of the translator and the author as ballroom dancers’
Daisy Rockwell details the rich and diverse world of South Asian literature and the liberation she feels while experimenting with language.
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An interview with Astrid Roemer and Lucy Scott, author and translator of On a Woman's Madness
With On a Woman’s Madness longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025, we spoke to the author and translator about songs, Psalms, mentors and memoirs
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An interview with Ana Paula Maia and Padma Viswanathan, author and translator of On Earth As It Is Beneath
The International Booker Prize 2026 nominated author and translator discuss who and what inspires them most, and why contemporary international fiction isn’t just for nerds