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International Booker prize

The latest news and comment on the Booker International prize

July 2024

  • Ismail Kadare

    ‘An ancient shadow permeates his work’: Alberto Manguel on the genius of Ismail Kadare

  • Albanian writer Ismail Kadare, pictured in 2005.

    Ismail Kadare, giant of Albanian literature, dies aged 88

May 2024

  • Jenny Erpenbeck and Michael Hofmann at the International Booker prize ceremony at Tate Modern.

    ‘It was high time I told our stories’: Jenny Erpenbeck on her International Booker winner Kairos

  • Author Jenny Erpenbeck.

    Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker prize

April 2024

  • Maryse Condé at the Saint-Malo festival in France in 2008.

    Maryse Condé obituary

  • International Booker prize 2024 shortlist.

    Six ‘implicitly optimistic’ novels make the International Booker prize shortlist

March 2024

  • International Booker prize longlist 2024.

    Latin American fiction ‘booms’ again on International Booker prize longlist

    Works from the continent make up a quarter of this year’s nominees, which include novels from Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil and Peru

February 2024

  • Georgi Gospodinov, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2023.

    Books interview
    Georgi Gospodinov: ‘There was a culture of silence – it was safer not to say what you think’

    The Bulgarian author and International Booker prize winner on his newfound fame, how communism influenced his style of writing, and winning praise from footballer Hristo Stoichkov

July 2023

  • Ftiz books guardian Final

    ‘It’s exciting, it’s powerful’: how translated fiction captured a new generation of readers

    From Argentinian horror to Japanese thrillers, under-35s are reading more internationally than ever before, with iconic covers becoming status symbols and fans swapping their discoveries online

May 2023

  • Georgi Gospodinov, author of the International Booker prize winning novel Time Shelter.

    International Booker winner Georgi Gospodinov: ‘My dystopian novel became real’

  • Translator Angela Rodel and author Georgi Gospodinov, winners of the International Booker prize for the novel Time Shelter.

    International Booker prize announces first ever Bulgarian winner

  • Booker New

    The 2023 International Booker prize shortlist – review

  • Han Kang

    Greek Lessons by Han Kang review – studies in silence and solitude

April 2023

  • International Booker shortlist 2023.

    International Booker prize reveals ‘very cool and very sexy’ shortlist

  • Lviv, the biggest city in western Ukraine

    Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov review – bittersweet relic of a sunnier age

March 2023

  • Vigdis Hjorth, Georgi Gospodinov, Perumal Murugan, GauZ', Maryse Condé, Andrey Kurkov.

    International Booker prize announces longlist to celebrate ‘ambition and panache’

    The list includes books from Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov as well as Indian novelist Perumal Murugan who declared himself ‘dead’ after protests against his work

December 2022

  • Prizeworthy … Shehan Karunatilaka wins the 2022 Booker prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

    What does this year’s double Booker win mean for south Asian literature?

    With Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka and India’s Geetanjali Shree taking home two of publishing’s biggest prizes, what next for one of the world’s most overlooked literary regions?

May 2022

  • Daisy Rockwell and Geetanjali Shree, winners of the 2022 International Booker Prize.

    First novel translated from Hindi wins International Booker prize

    Author Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell share the £50,000 prize for ‘extraordinarily funny and fun’ Tomb of Sand

April 2022

  • The 2022 International Booker prize shortlist.

    International Booker prize shortlist delivers ‘awe and exhilaration’

    The final contenders for the £50,000 prize for translated fiction – five out of six by women – could see Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk win a second time

March 2022

  • The 2022 International Booker Prize Longlist.

    International Booker prize announces longlist ‘tracing ring around the world’

    The 13 books in contention for the £50,000 prize include Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, the first book translated from Hindi to be nominated
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