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Behind every Booker Prize novel are routines and rituals that define the work. Here, 12 authors and translators reveal how they shape a story from beginning to end

Peter Hujar’s image on Hanya Yanagihara’s novel A Little Life encapsulates the pain and joy of the book - but the author’s relationship with photography goes deeper

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2019, Olga Tokarczuk’s subversive, entertaining neo-noir is both gripping and thought-provoking, and anything but a conventional crime novel

The humble bookshelf provides far more than a storage solution. Here, the team at the Booker Prizes share their diverse approaches to curating their own book collections, while offering inspiration for your own 

Roddy Doyle, Chair of the Booker Prize 2025 judges, shares his idea for a dream book club and reveals the fictional character he feels he has known his whole life

The Little Eyes author discusses our complicated relationship with technology, and reveals that an affectionate robot vacuum cleaner helped inspire the novel

With The Birthday Party longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, its author talks about writing a novel in the vein of Stephen King, but with the language of Marcel Proust
 

The translator of Little Eyes on the impact of an International Booker Prize nomination, and the person she keeps in mind when translating a work of fiction

Translator Tiffany Tsao reflects on the experience of translating Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s Happy Stories, Mostly, and the collective effort of bringing Indonesian literature to readers around the world

David Boyd on his adoration for Japanese literature and how music became a common language when translating Heaven.