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In this week’s episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts discuss how to define a classic text, and which Booker Prize-nominated novels may now be worthy of the status

Author Romesh Gunesekera talks about how his Sri Lankan childhood made him a reader and why the literary canon must diversify

Aaron Robertson talks about the need for more publicity around translated fiction and what AI means for the future of literary translation 

Broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel talks about how British books have a different smell than North American ones and the importance of intuition when selecting books for the longlist

Artist William Kentridge talks about reading electronically and how 80 percent of the novels he’s read in his life have been translated fiction

From books that changed the world to contemporary works that are certain to endure, these are your must-read classics from the Booker Library

Arguments over the definition of ‘classic’ novels persist, but there are plenty of works in the Booker Library that are deserving of the label  

This week, The Booker Prize Podcast goes to the movies and revisits Thomas Keneally’s 1982 prize-winner, and its silver-screen counterpart

On The Booker Prize Podcast this week, we revisit Sally Rooney’s literary blockbuster, a novel that was longlisted in 2018 and went on to capture hearts across the world

Throughout history, works of fiction have been censored, suppressed and banned by anxious authorities, including a number of novels from the Booker archives