Read our interviews with the International Booker Prize 2023 shortlistees

With Boulder shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, its author talks about needing to be in love with her characters and why her writing space resembles a monastic cell

With Boulder shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, its translator talks about growing up trilingual, working in a spiral – and finding the right translation for a sex toy

With Whale shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, its author talks about how writing the book felt like taking dictation – and why a world without translated fiction is terrible to contemplate 

With Whale shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, its translator talks about immersing herself in the author’s world and why the book reminded her of her grandmother 

With The Gospel According to the New World shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, the author talks about becoming ‘intimate enemies’ with her translator husband – and the writers who have inspired her 

With The Gospel According to the New World shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, Richard Philcox talks about his path to becoming a literary translator – and working with his wife 

With Standing Heavy shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, its author talks about taking notes for his debut novel while working as a security guard – and how the world has been built on a succession of fictions

With Standing Heavy shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, its translator talks about how his work allows him to be many different writers – and listening to West African music as part of his research

The author of Time Shelter, now the winner of the International Booker Prize 2023, talks about populism, Brexit, nostalgia – and his grandmother’s stories 

The translator of Time Shelter, the winner of the International Booker Prize 2023, talks about exploring the inner workings of language – and how disco came to Eastern Europe later than the West

With Still Born shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, the author talks about challenging patriarchal ideas of motherhood and telling her friend’s inspiring story  

With Still Born shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, its translator talks about settling on the book’s title – and why literary translation should be seen as a profession rather than a labour of love