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Writers Reading Writers

Behind every great novelist… there’s another great novelist.

Here, authors from across the Booker Library talk about their biggest influences. Sometimes other Booker authors, sometimes not.

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shortlist writers on inspiring writers

Writers reading writers

The writers who inspired the Booker Prize 2022's shortlisted authors

NoViolet Bulawayo

Writers reading writers

NoViolet Bulawayo on George Orwell: ‘Animal Farm sent me foraging my childhood’

Kurt Vonnegut

Writers reading writers

Shehan Karunatilaka on Kurt Vonnegut: ‘He's the genius I have robbed from the most'

Elizabeth Strout

Writers reading writers

Elizabeth Strout on William Trevor: ‘He taught me that the writer’s voice can be quiet’

Hatō zu (Ocean Waves) by Uehara Konen

Writers reading writers

Maggie Shipstead on A Tale for the Time Being

Children on the way to school in rural Kerala

First person

Writers reading writers

Nadifa Mohamed on The God of Small Things

Circular forms, Sun, Moon by Robert Delaunay

Writers reading writers

First person

Anuk Arudpragasam on John Berger's G.

The Garden Court, 1875-1880 painting by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

Writers reading writers

Patricia Lockwood on A. S. Byatt's Possession

Glasgow

Writers reading writers

First person

Damon Galgut on James Kelman's How late It Was, How Late

Penelope Fitzgerald,1991

Writers reading writers

Richard Powers on Offshore

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