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Six Booker Prize-nominated post-apocalyptic books
From viral pandemics to extinction-level events, these searing novels set in the wake of an apocalypse make the essential end-of-world reading list
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'You do this or you die': how Ben Okri wrote The Famished Road
Ben Okri, the first Black winner of the Booker Prize, explains how he had to create fresh techniques to tell a story rooted in his African childhood
Few writers are as synonymous with the Booker Prize as Salman Rushdie, with seven of his 12 adult novels having been nominated. Here’s our guide to his best books
We asked members of the Booker Prizes family - including several previous winners - to pick a single book from the Booker archive and tell us why they’re looking forward to reading it
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The Booker Prize launches competition to name its trophy
Readers are invited to enter to be part of the prize’s history and for the chance to win prizes from The Folio Society and Montegrappa worth more than £700
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Michel Tournier
Michel Tournier was a French writer, editor and broadcaster
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Harry Mulisch
Harry Mulisch was a Dutch writer of more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections
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Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes was a Mexican novelist and essayist
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Don DeLillo
American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist
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Should Martin Amis have won the Booker Prize?
While the other members of his 1980s gang – Barnes, McEwan, Rushdie and Ishiguro – have all bagged a Booker and other awards, Amis remained relatively trophy-less. So why did the big literary prizes elude him?