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The public has voted: the Booker Prize trophy will be named Iris, after novelist Dame Iris Murdoch DBE, who was nominated for the prize seven times
 

Lucy Scholes revisits The Lost Father by Marina Warner, the author’s third novel which was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1988

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, translator Nichola Smalley talks about A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding in an exclusive interview

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, translator Jeremy Tiang talks about being nominated for Ninth Building in an exclusive interview

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, translator Richard Philcox talks about The Gospel According to the New World in an exclusive interview

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, author Maryse Condé talks about The Gospel According to the New World in an exclusive interview

The International Booker Prize 2023 longlist offers a breadth of remarkable translated fiction. Take our quiz to help you discover which book is for you.

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, author Amanda Svensson talks about A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding in an exclusive interview
 

From folklore with added fright factor to otherworldly modern tales, these books from the Booker Library tap into our darkest fears of spectres and spirits

Although best known for her historical fiction, Hilary Mantel’s first Booker Prize nomination came with this comically sinister tale of wicked spirits and suburban mediums in a masterpiece of dark humour