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Today, May 20, Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi is announced as the winner of the International Booker Prize 2025
As Heart Lamp becomes the first short-story collection to win the International Booker Prize, here’s everything you need to know about the book, its author and translator
Featuring the tragicomic adventures of a host of eccentric misfits, these beguiling books will appeal to fans of Wes Anderson – a film director known as a bibliophile as well as an auteur
Deborah Levy explores the strange and monstrous nature of motherhood in her Booker shortlisted novel, testing the bonds of parent and child to breaking point
As they prepare to pass the baton, International Booker Prize 2024 winners Jenny Erpenbeck and Michael Hofmann reflect on the moment they won and what happened next
Win one of five copies of our Monthly Spotlight title for June, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag
Crossing continents and spanning 150 years, this collection of books presents powerful fictional accounts of some of the world’s most harrowing true stories
Fifty years ago, the Booker Prize judges enraged the publishing world by including just two books on the shortlist – and declaring a strong distaste for most contemporary fiction
Richard Powers’ powerful ode to the natural world was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2018
Richard Powers’ radical and remarkable novel. Nine strangers are each summoned in different ways by the natural world to save it from catastrophe
