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Read our interviews with the longlistees of 2022’s International Booker Prize

The Reading Agency and BBC Arts have teamed up for the Big Jubilee Read, and we’re celebrating the books and authors on the list who are part of the Booker family.

We asked the authors nominated for this year’s Booker Prize about the inspirations behind their longlisted works; their favourite books; and where they love to read, and write

Since 2022, the Booker Prize Foundation has created several series of short films to celebrate the books shortlisted for our annual prizes

International Booker Prize Chair Calls for a Share in Profits for Translators

The first fully in-person ceremony since 2019 will bring together Booker Prize writers past and present with a diverse range of readers

Readers are invited to enter to be part of the prize’s history and for the chance to win prizes from The Folio Society and Montegrappa worth more than £700

This May, we’ve teamed up with The Notting Hill Bookshop in London, made famous by the 1999 Richard Curtis film, to showcase the world’s best translated fiction

Author Sara Collins reflects on Andrea Levy’s unparalleled ability to write about Jamaica’s colonial history, with her signature dash of levity

Gaby Wood, Director of the Booker Prize Foundation on the news that Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature