Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’
Hisham Matar, Sarah Perry and Samantha Harvey in running for prize, along with the first Native American and Dutch authors ever to be nominated
Bernice Rubens, first woman to win Booker, honoured with Cardiff plaque
Scholars and politicians to attend unveiling of memorial at family home of only Welsh winner of literary prize
BookTok star Jack Edwards: ‘I got to interview the Gruffalo last year. They say don’t meet your idols’
The social media influencer on how he became a hit on BookTok, democratising book reviewing, and trying to explain to his family what he does for a living
Paul Lynch: ‘When you win the Booker, you are told you won’t write for a year’
The Irish novelist on navigating success shortly after a cancer diagnosis and a marriage breakdown, the renaissance in Irish writing, and how his ‘tragic worldview’ fits the times
Booker prize urged to consider name change over slavery link
Broadcaster Richie Brave, whose ancestors were enslaved, says organisers should be ‘asking themselves some questions’
Maryse Condé obituary
Writer whose novels trace the complexities of a globalised world and the fortunes of families across continents and generations
Latin American authors on rise in International Booker prize lists
Today’s boom in Latin American literature is spearheaded by women, from Fernanda Melchor, Mariana Enriquez to Samanta Schweblin, who engage with femicide, trauma and violence through horror and speculative fiction
Jonathan Escoffery: ‘I was trying to write novels aged nine’
The If I Survive You author on the suspense of the Booker ceremony, Americans’ warped view of the Caribbean, and writing his next novel on the road
The Guardian view on utopias: news from nowhere can help us here and now
Editorial: The Booker prize has gone to a dystopian vision of a totalitarian Ireland. But imagined futures needn’t always be bleak
‘This is a wake-up call’: Booker winner Paul Lynch on his novel about a fascist Ireland
The writer was on the operating table for cancer, then exactly a year later he found out his nightmarish vision had made the shortlist. He reveals why the words for Prophet Song came out with such urgency, there was no time for paragraph breaks
‘Escape to another world’: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on reading in prison
Addressing Sunday night’s Booker prize ceremony, the translator jailed in Iran for almost six years described how illicit books sustained her sense of freedom
‘Soul-shattering’ Prophet Song by Paul Lynch wins 2023 Booker prize
The Irish author’s novel set in an imagined Dublin descending into far-right tyranny wins £50,000 prize
Paul Lynch’s timely Booker winner is a novel written to jolt the reader awake
Prophet Song imagines an Ireland under fascist control, breaking through the it-couldn’t-happen-here complacency of western societies
Bookies make the three Pauls their favourites to win 2023 Booker prize
Paul Harding, Paul Lynch and Paul Murray have been given the best odds of winning the prestigious £50,000 literary prize this weekend
Booker prize 2023: will the judges talk themselves out of the right choice?
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting, in a year full of family sagas, is surely the standout volume, but the panel may just opt for Sarah Bernstein’s ‘spectrally vague brainteaser’