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Max Porter on publishing The Vegetarian: ‘Everyone agreed that this was an important book’
Max Porter explains the process behind the publication of The Vegetarian by Han Kang, and why it was essential that it reached new readers
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TBR: The Booker Revisited
In this series, in partnership with Lit Hub, Lucy Scholes casts a fresh eye over some of the hidden gems in the Booker Library – our archive of over 500 books that have been longlisted or shortlisted for our prizes
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The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies: an intimate portrait of love, loyalty and national identity
Peter Ho Davies’s 2007 Booker-longlisted novel explores conflicting notions of national pride and shame, belonging and alienation
The new weekly podcast will take an informal, insightful and often irreverent look at the books, authors, themes and trivia arising from over 50 years of the Booker’s history
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Anton Hur: How I learned the truth about young, open-minded readers of translated fiction
In this guest article for Pride Month, translator Anton Hur explains how the readership for translated fiction is less conservative than he’d been led to believe
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Sara Collins on Andrea Levy: She changed our minds about history
Author Sara Collins reflects on Andrea Levy’s unparalleled ability to write about Jamaica’s colonial history, with her signature dash of levity
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Ian McEwan interview: How he wrote the Booker-winning Amsterdam
25 years after winning the Booker for Amsterdam, Ian McEwan revisits his journals and talks about the inspirations behind the book, in an exclusive interview
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The Booker Prize Podcast
Discover The Booker Prize Podcast, which features lively discussions and fascinating insights into Booker books, past and present
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12 of the best novels for Pride Month from the Booker Library
From historical same-sex romances to tales of queer parenthood, Eric Karl Anderson has compiled a selection of Booker-nominated fiction celebrating a diverse range of LGBTQ+ experiences