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Discover the shortlist: David Boyd, ‘In translation, you have to inhabit the story’
David Boyd on his adoration for Japanese literature and how music became a common language when translating Heaven.
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Susan Choi interview: ‘Reading a great book feels like being dropped onto an alien planet’
The author of Flashlight, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, on being haunted by childhood memories of a trip to Japan, and the richness of short novels
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Jack Edwards Q&A: Get to know the host of the Booker Prize 2023 livestream
The livestream of this year’s winner ceremony will be hosted by social media star Jack Edwards. Here, we ask him about his reading habits, and what we can expect from the big night
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Claire Keegan on Small Things Like These: 'I wasn’t setting out to write about misogyny or Catholic Ireland'
Claire Keegan discusses the short story that inspired Small Things Like These, the role of restraint in her writing, and why love is at the core of her novel
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Everything you need to know about the International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist
Take a closer look at the six remarkable shortlisted books – their themes, characters, settings and origins, and find out what everyone’s saying about them
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10 Booker-nominated books to take to the seaside
From solitary escapes to idyllic resorts, join us on a trip through literature’s most compelling coastal tales with these Booker Prize-nominated novels
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A Q&A with John Hodgson, translator of Ismail Kadare’s A Dictator Calls
With A Dictator Calls longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, we spoke to its translator about their experience of working on the novel – and their favourite books
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Elaine Feeney interview: 'It's impossible not to consider pain and loss when writing'
With How to Build a Boat longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, we spoke to Elaine Feeney about why Ireland is a nation of storytellers and how her main character was inspired by her son
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Head to Toe
The only novel ever published by the playwright Joe Orton (posthumously), this fantasy follows the fortunes of the hero, Gombold, who strays onto the head of a creature some hundred miles high
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Lucy Boynton, Omari Douglas and Ambika Mod among actors to star in new International Booker Prize films
The cast of actors who star in the International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist films are today revealed in a trailer for the highly anticipated series of shorts, broadcast on the Booker Prizes’ social media channels