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Yann Martel on winning the Man Booker Prize for Life of Pi, October 2002.
© Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty ImagesMan Booker winner Hilary Mantel in 2012 after winning for Bring up the Bodies.
© Janie AireyJohn Berger delivering his speech as winner of the Booker Prize, 1972
Courtesy of Oxford Brookes ArchiveMax Porter applauds as Eleanor Catton is announced as winner of the Man Booker Prize at the Guildhall, London
© Anthony Devlin/PA/AlamyArundhati Roy, winner of the 1997 Booker Prize for The God of Small Things.
Courtesy Oxford Brookes ArchiveBernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize 2019, at the Booker Prize 2022 winner ceremony at the Roundhouse
© David Parry/Booker Prize FoundationShehan Karunatilaka winner of the Booker Prize 2022
© David Parry/Booker Prize FoundationIsmail Kadare, winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, 2005
© Reuters/AlamyTranslator Deborah Smith and author Han Kang, winners of the International Booker Prize 2016 for The Vegetarian
© Janie Airey/Booker Prize FoundationTime Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel, winner of the International Booker Prize in 2023, was the first book originally written in Bulgarian to win the award.
A quarter of books on the 2024 longlist is written by South American authors, with books representing Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Venezuela. Fiammetta Rocco, the Administrator of the prize, observed that list ‘signalled a second “boom” in Latin American fiction’.
Author Georgi Gospodinov with translator Angela Rodel after winning the International Booker Prize 2023
© David ParryTrophy and shortlisted books at the International Booker Prize 2023 winner ceremony, Sky Garden, London
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