The latest news and comment about the 2016 Man Booker International prize
March 2017
The Explosion Chronicles by Yan Lianke review – a masterpiece
A Chinese village is transformed into a mega-metropolis in this surreal satire of both communism and capitalist excess
December 2016
Review literary quiz 2016
Literary quiz 2016: pit your wits against the authors – part 1
Fingers on buzzers for brainteasers from Ian Rankin, Will Self, William Boyd, Shami Chakrabarti and more
October 2016
Digested week
Latest Ukip leadership candidate can't help shooting from the hip
John Crace
Politicians don’t seem to know where Gatwick airport is and shadow chancellor John McDonnell makes a meal out of Brexit
Public Books
Sex, violence and The Vegetarian: the brutality of Han Kang's Booker winner
Given that Koreans enjoy a low rate of violent crime by international standards, how are we to comprehend the seeming ubiquity of abuse and madness in Korean fiction? asks Seo Hee Im
How Paul Beatty's win shakes the Jonathan Franzen-loving US literati
The Sellout, a challenging satire on US race relations, was overlooked when it was published, but now Beatty is the first American to take the Man Booker prize
September 2016
Translated book sales are up, but Britain is still cut off from foreign literature
Bestsellers from the likes of Elena Ferrante and Karl Ove Knausgaard have helped the market, but fundamental obstacles to reading genuinely widely remain
The Guardian Books podcast
Deborah Levy and the Booker shortlist – books podcast
As the Booker prize announces a shortlist that’s long on surprises, we talk to Deborah Levy and assess the contenders for this year’s award
A life in ...
Ottessa Moshfegh interview: ‘Eileen started out as a joke – also I’m broke, also I want to be famous’
The books interview: the Man Booker-shortlisted author talks about writing a thriller to get noticed, exorcising her childhood and sexist critics
August 2016
The Many by Wyl Menmuir review – fishermen’s blues
Sister act: female friendship in fiction from Woolf to Ferrante and Zadie Smith
May 2016
My writing day
Han Kang and Deborah Smith: ‘It is fascinating to ponder the possibilities of language’
The Guardian Books podcast
Han Kang, winner of the Man Booker International 2016 - podcast interview
April 2016
'Exhilarating' Man Booker International shortlist spans the world
Turkish Nobel-winner Orhan Pamuk will compete with pseudonymous Italian Elena Ferrante and Chinese dissident Yan Lianke for prize honouring fiction in translation
March 2016
My hero
My hero: Elena Ferrante by Margaret Drabble
‘The Story of the Lost Child’ has just been longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International prize
Books blog
Translated fiction by women must stop being a minority in a minority
Katy Derbyshire
As the 2016 Man Booker International prize longlist shows, a shamefully small number of books from other countries make it into English, and even fewer are by women. It’s time this changed
Man Booker International 2016 longlist includes banned and pseudonymous authors
Elena Ferrante, Orhan Pamuk and Kenzaburō Ōe in running for £50,000 prize for authors and translators, as award rewards individual books for first time
