The French-Moroccan novelist talks about her lifelong love of foreign literature - and why the International Booker Prize allows readers to interrogate both the past and the future

The author and translator talks about the island library that fostered his love of reading - and crossing borders through literature

The Booker-shortlisted Malaysian novelist talks about being a voracious reader as a child - and why he is looking for novels that speak to both the head and the heart

The New Yorker writer talks about growing up in a house where fiction was contraband - and why the International Booker is the literary award with the widest scope

The FT’s literary editor talks about growing up surrounded by books - and reading outside the familiar