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We’re offering you the chance to win one of five bundles made up of all six shortlisted titles in contention for this year’s International Booker Prize 

Whether you’re new to the shortlist or would like to explore it more deeply, our guides are packed with insights from critics, judges, authors and translators

This year’s shortlisted books cast a forensic eye on divided families and divided societies, revisiting pasts both recent and distant to help make sense of the present. Read an extract from all six titles here

We asked the authors and translators shortlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize how it feels to be nominated, how they worked together on the English editions – and about their favourite books

Today, Tuesday 9 April, the 2024 shortlist for the International Booker Prize, the world’s most significant award for a single work of translated fiction, is announced

With Undiscovered longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, we spoke to its author and translator about their experience of working on the novel together – and their favourite books

The author of Washington Black talks to us about the tireless research she conducted for the novel, her passion for the classics – and why she’ll always return to The Catcher in the Rye 

With A Dictator Calls longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, we spoke to its translator about their experience of working on the novel – and their favourite books

We asked the International Booker Prize 2024 judges to explain what impressed and delighted them most about each book on this year’s shortlist – and why they are relevant to today’s world 

The librarians and booksellers taking part in our inaugural challenge tell us what they are most looking forward to about being a Reading Challenge Ambassador