Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo writing memoir about 'never giving up'
Manifesto will chart the first Black Booker prize winner’s 40-year journey to literary centre-stage and encourage others to pursue creative fulfilment
December 2019
The 2010s: what just happened?
This decade we’ve become obsessed with reading – and writing – about ourselves
Rebecca Watson
The Guardian view on arts prizes: a 20th-century phenomenon?
All deserve prizes? That’s no truer in art (including the Booker and Turner prizes) than in life
Viv Groskop
‘Another author’: outrage after BBC elides Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker win
October 2019
Without youth theatre, I would never have won the Booker prize
Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo doubles lifetime sales in five days after joint Booker win
Judging the Booker prize: 'I'm proud of our decision'
Afua Hirsch
The Booker prize judges have exposed the doublethink behind our arts awards
Charlotte Higgins
Booker winners Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood on breaking the rules
The Guardian Books podcast
The legacy of the Windrush scandal, plus the 2019 Booker prize winners - books podcast
Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share Booker prize 2019
Booker judges try to have it both ways
Booker prize shortlist 2019: who to put your money on
What I learned from my year of reading outside the box
Afua Hirsch
The Guardian Books podcast
'I want world domination!' Lucy Ellmann on her Booker behemoth Ducks, Newburyport – books podcast
How to write a Booker contender – by Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and others
September 2019
Won’t stick: reports of Margaret Atwood’s 2019 Booker prize win greatly exaggerated
Organisers rush to clarify that judges have not yet decided beyond the shortlist after bookshop brands copies of The Testaments as the winner
Made in ...
Bernardine Evaristo on Woolwich: 'We weren’t allowed to play outside'
The Booker-shortlisted novelist on the garrison town on the edge of London where she was first introduced to the writing of James Baldwin and Buchi Emecheta
Books blog
The Booker prize shortlist resists easy reading
Alex Clark
From the detonation of the domestic in Ducks, Newburyport to Don Quixote’s reincarnation in Quichotte, this year’s finalists challenge our assumptions
