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A literary phenomenon in Japan, Hunchback is an extraordinary and thrilling debut novel about sex, disability and power

With Crooked Plow longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, we spoke to its author and translator about their experience of working on the novel together – and their favourite books

As the International Booker Prize 2023 shortlist is announced, discover the most interesting facts and trends that have emerged in this year’s selection

The International Booker Prize 2026 nominated author and translator on the importance of Iranian women writers, and the books originally written in Persian that everyone should read

The critically-acclaimed author discusses the beauty she sees in English-language translation.

Interviewed after being longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2018, Richard Powers explains how an encounter with an ancient Californian redwood inspired The Overstory and what genres he’s drawn to the most

We asked the authors on the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist to tell us about their inspirations. Here, Paul Harding, author of This Other Eden, explains how the moral complexity of Shakespeare’s villains helped him create Matthew Diamond

In a dazzling display of masterful storytelling, Marlon James explores the extraordinary backstory to the attempted assassination of Bob Marley

We asked the Booker Prize 2022 judges to explain what impressed and delighted them most about each book on the shortlist – and why they are relevant to today’s world