In a variety of ways, the protagonists on the Booker Prize 2024 shortlist are longing for home, exiled from it, clinging to it, reflecting on it or trying to create a new version of it
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With the Booker Prize 2024 winner ceremony just around the corner, we sat down with the authors on this year’s shortlist to get to know them a little better
In a series of quickfire interviews, our shortlisted authors – Percival Everett, Samantha Harvey, Rachel Kushner, Anne Michaels, Yael van der Wouden and Charlotte Wood – share the worst writing advice they’ve ever received, the wisdom they’d pass on to their teenage selves, how they’d spend that coveted prize money if they win, and much more. Here’s what they had to say…
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