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Thirty years after winning the Booker for The Ghost Road, Pat Barker discusses feeling like an outsider, writing about men, and the under-representation of working-class voices
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The International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist provides a ‘miraculous lens through which to view human experience’
Today, Tuesday, 8 April, the 2025 shortlist for the International Booker Prize, the world’s most influential award for translated fiction, is announced
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Reading guide: Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Asa Yoneda
Whether you’re new to Under the Eye of the Big Bird or have read it and would like to explore it more deeply, here is our comprehensive guide, featuring insights from critics and the book’s author and translator, as well as discussion points and suggestions for further reading.
Whether you’re new to Small Boat or have read it and would like to explore it more deeply, here is our comprehensive guide, featuring insights from critics and the book’s author and translator, as well as discussion points and suggestions for further reading.
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Reading guide: On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland
Whether you’re new to On the Calculation of Volume I or have read it and would like to explore it more deeply, here is our comprehensive guide, featuring insights from critics and the book’s author and translator, as well as discussion points and suggestions for further reading.
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Read extracts from the International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist
The International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist provides ‘a miraculous lens through which to view human experience, both the truly disturbing and the achingly beautiful’. Here we present an extract from each of the six shortlisted books
We asked the authors and translators shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025 to tell us more about the inspirations and writing process behind their nominated books
Whether you’re new to Perfection or have read it and would like to explore it more deeply, here is our comprehensive guide, featuring insights from critics, our judges and the book’s author and translator, as well as discussion points and suggestions for further reading.
Whether you’re new to Heart Lamp or have read it and would like to explore it more deeply, here is our comprehensive guide, featuring insights from critics, our judges and the book’s author and translator, as well as discussion points and suggestions for further reading.