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Today, Tuesday 9 April, the 2024 shortlist for the International Booker Prize, the world’s most significant award for a single work of translated fiction, is announced
He tells us how translation makes meaningful connections across languages possible and about the LGBTQ+ community that inspired him to write his novel.
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‘I’m sadly incapable of planning my books. I just have to leap and then hope I’m able to resolve all the problems.’
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The Disappearers is both a dramatic page-turner and an unflinching exploration of queer life in Jamaica during the 1980s and 1990s
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‘The years of frustration and rejection slips taught me that the only sensible reason to write is because you love writing’
Wondering which of the 13 International Booker Prize 2024 longlisted titles to read first? We asked our judges to summarise each book – and say what they loved about them
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James Shapiro talks about the family library trips that turned him into a voracious reader - and what makes the Booker the ‘Mount Everest’ of literary prizes
In this week’s episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts discuss how to define a classic text, and which Booker Prize-nominated novels may now be worthy of the status
A year after Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell won the International Booker Prize 2022 for Tomb of Sand, they talk about how the prize expanded their world
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In his spellbinding third novel, Paul Harding celebrates the hopes, dreams and resilience of those deemed not to fit in a world brutally intolerant of difference
