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Man Booker prize 2016

The latest news and comment on the 2016 Man Booker prize for literature

January 2017

  • Paul Beatty

    Paul Beatty: ‘For me, Trump’s America has always existed’

    Booker prize winner says president’s rise is not a shock and race relations have improved very little, even under Obama

October 2016

  • Paul Beatty Alan Vest

    My writing day
    Paul Beatty: ‘I’ve got no idea how winning is going to affect my writing life, but I’m about to find out’

  • The six Man Booker shortlisted fiction authors, pose with their books, during a photo-call on the eve of the prize giving in London<br>The six Man Booker shortlisted fiction authors, (L to R) Paul Beatty, Deborah Levy, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Ottessa Moshfegh, David Szalay and Madeleine Thien, pose with their books, during a photo-call on the eve of the prize giving in London, Britain October 24, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

    The week in books
    Big cheers for small publishers

  • Man Booker prize winner Paul Beatty in London.

    Turned down 18 times. Then Paul Beatty won the Booker …

  • Paul Beatty

    Man Booker prize 2016 won by American author Paul Beatty

  • Paul Beatty overcome by emotion as he wins Man Booker prize – video

  • The Sellout rips up rulebook for what award-winning fiction looks like

  • Man Booker prize 2016: bookies' and public's favourites revealed

  • Man Booker prize 2016: the fine line between fiction and literature

  • How to write a Man Booker novel: six shortlisted authors share their secrets

  • The Guardian Books podcast
    Booker finalist Paul Beatty and Super Thursday – books podcast

  • David Szalay's 'unsparing' All That Man Is wins Gordon Burn prize

September 2016

  • Clockwise from top left: Madeleine Thien, Paul Beatty, Otessa Moshfegh, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Deborah Levy, David Szalay

    Books blog
    The Man Booker prize 2016 shortlist – a judge’s view

    Man Booker judge Jon Day surveys the shortlist – plus an analysis of this year’s lineup
  • Graeme Macrae Burnet with the cover of his book, His Bloody Project, which has made the shortlist of this year’s Man Booker prize.

    Booker prize may not have starry names, but it does generate curiosity

    This year’s shortlist does not include big sellers but does raise important questions about what such prizes are for

    • Man Booker shortlist 2016: tiny Scottish imprint sees off publishing giants

    • Books blog
      Predicting the Man Booker shortlist: how the literary times are changing

    • The Guardian Books podcast
      Tricks of the mind with David Means and Marc Lewis – books podcast

August 2016

  • david means portrait

    Book of the day
    Hystopia by David Means – review

    Traumatised Vietnam vets maraud the streets of a reimagined 60s America in this ambitious but problematic contender for this year’s Booker
  • Elizabeth Strout in New York

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Elizabeth Strout: ‘I don’t care how badly my characters misbehave’

    The US novelist, longlisted for this year’s Man Booker, talks inspiration, warts-and-all writing and her long slog to success
  • Rough waves crushing against pebbles on a beach. North Cornwall, UK, British Isles. Image shot 02/2008. Exact date unknown.<br>APYNFT Rough waves crushing against pebbles on a beach. North Cornwall, UK, British Isles. Image shot 02/2008. Exact date unknown.

    The Many by Wyl Menmuir review – a disturbing debut

    A surprising inclusion on the Man Booker prize longlist exerts an uneasy power
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