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In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts discuss the 1990 Booker Prize-winner, a gloriously exhilarating novel of both wit and romance

In 2022, we revived Jan Pieńkowski’s original statuette in his honour. Now, she needs a name. So we’re inviting you to become part of Booker Prize history
 

Barbara Pym’s compassionate and funny novel follows four people in late middle-age with different eccentricities but the same problem: loneliness

‘“Hold on. What’s going on here?” I couldn’t help but voice the thought out loud. For, in that moment, I seemed to have been transported back into the midst of Shōkyokusai Tenkatsu’s Magic Troupe. I’d crossed paths with Tenkatsu’s troupe long ago, before I’d started high school.’ 

She discusses how she uses the fantastical to address the horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society.

‘What we obviously had, even when things smoothed over, was a C-minus marriage, which makes it pretty hard to score much higher than a B overall on the rest of your life’

‘I wanted to do justice to the characters I had in my head’

In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts are joined by Graeme Macrae Burnet to discuss his 2016 shortlisted novel, His Bloody Project

With Dune: Part Two – an adaptation of a literary classic – in cinemas, we’ve rounded up our favourite works of science fiction from the Booker Library

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