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From teenagers on the brink of adulthood to grown men struggling to process trauma, this year’s longlisted books offer fascinating insights into the male psyche – and bear similarities to other Booker-nominated novels
We asked you to help us name the recently revived Booker Prize trophy. Now, our judges have selected a final six - and it’s time to choose a winner
She discusses how she uses the fantastical to address the horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society.
Frederick Studemann is the Literary Editor of the Financial Times and was also a founding member of FT Deutschland. Studemann spent his early years in Cork and Dublin, before moving to London, with later postings in Berlin, the Soviet Union, Greece and Austria.
From Bernice Rubens in 1970 to Ben Markovits in 2025, the mid-life crisis has long been a rich source of material for Booker-nominated novelists
The author of The Vegetarian – and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 – talks about the impact of winning the International Booker Prize in 2016, how the novel has been received worldwide and why it questions what it means to be human
‘I am a child shaped in beeswax. I am made like a doll the size of a human forearm. They have given me hair and fingernail parings from the person who is to suffer. I was borne by my mistress for forty weeks under her right arm as if I was a proper child, and my wax was softened by her warmth.’
Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World is an intensely beautiful and haunting novel about the wonder of life, the mystery of death and the strange space in between
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, The Memory Police is an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan’s greatest writers
