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Interviews with the Booker Prize 2024 longlistees
We asked the authors nominated for this year’s Booker Prize about the inspirations behind their longlisted works, and about their favourite books
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The author of My Friends, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, talks about the classic that inspired him to become a writer, and why he always returns to Proust
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Richard Powers interview: ‘As a child, I was sure I was going to be an oceanographer'
The author of Playground, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, talks about his journey from physics to fiction, and the surreal book that showed him a novel ‘could make its own rules’
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Rachel Kushner interview: ‘Reading Alice in Wonderland felt like a secret being deposited’
The author of Creation Lake, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, discusses her fascination with prehistory, and the writer who established a new set of language rules
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Sarah Perry interview: ‘Every writer can learn from the plotting of a good crime novelist’
The author of Enlightenment, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, shares the childhood memory that inspired her latest book, and her admiration for the ‘faultless’ novel by J.L. Carr
The author of Headshot, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, talks about the personal experiences that inspired her novel and the shapeshifting power of Virginia Woolf
The author of This Strange Eventful History, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, discusses the need to tell the stories of worldviews that have vanished, and five books she would describe as ‘perfect’
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Samantha Harvey interview: ‘I wanted to write a space pastoral’
The author of Orbital, winner of the Booker Prize 2024, on how her novel was 25 years in the making, and the work of translated fiction that haunts her
The author of Wandering Stars, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, talks about the impact of his cultural heritage on his storytelling, and his journey from reader to writer
From blackly comic page-turners to multigenerational epics to meditations on the pain of exile, this year’s longlisted books showcase the finest in fiction. But where should you start?