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Discover the shortlist: Claudia Piñeiro, ‘I’ve always been very rebellious’
The globally bestselling author and scriptwriter discusses the inspiration behind the unlikely protagonist at the heart of her novel Elena Knows.
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Richard Powers Q&A
‘I’ve just updated the fable for the age of pandemics, exoplanets, and mass extinction’
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11 of the best very short books from the Booker Library
We’ve compiled a selection of Booker-nominated novels that make a big impact in around 200 pages or less. They may be small, but they’re perfectly formed
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An extract from The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1973, The Black Prince is part-thriller, part-love story: a book that explores the intricacies and inconsistencies of human relationships
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An extract from Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter
Solenoid submerges us in the mundane details of a diarist’s life, and then spirals into a bizarre, existential account of history, philosophy and mathematics
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Martin MacInnes interview: ‘An SF novel can be as high-brow as any other genre’
With In Ascension longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, we spoke to Martin MacInnes about the interconnectedness of life – and why arts and sciences belong together
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The Booker Prize Podcast, Episode 7: Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts – Jo Hamya and James Walton – discuss our August Book of the Month, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981
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Meet the International Booker Prize 2024 judges: Eleanor Wachtel
Broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel talks about how British books have a different smell than North American ones and the importance of intuition when selecting books for the longlist
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A crash course in novel writing: how Kazuo Ishiguro wrote The Remains of the Day in a month
Kazuo Ishiguro describes the intense four-week writing period behind his 1989 Booker Prize winner
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The Booker Prize Podcast, Episode 16: An interview with George Saunders
In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts are joined by George Saunders, winner of the 2017 Booker Prize, to talk about Lincoln in the Bardo, politics, and finding his voice as a writer