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Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann, wins the International Booker Prize 2024
 

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In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts revisit the 2016 International Booker Prize-winner The Vegetarian by Han Kang translated by Deborah Smith

Advances in AI suggest it may only be a matter of time before machine-generated fiction renders human novelists obsolete. But here’s why that (probably) won’t be the case

In the first episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts get to know each other by discussing their favourite books from the Booker Library

In 2016, The Vegetarian won the International Booker Prize, the first time the award was given to a single book. Find out more about Han Kang’s novel here.
 

Use our comprehensive reading guide to explore the winner of the International Booker Prize 2016, The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith

Win one of five bundles including a copy of The Vegetarian by Han Kang and translated by Deborah Smith, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag
 

Read an extract from Han Kang’s 2016 International Booker Prize-winning novel, about our faltering attempts to understand the lives of others

Max Porter explains the process behind the publication of The Vegetarian by Han Kang, and why it was essential that it reached new readers