AS Byatt, author and critic, dies aged 87
The acclaimed author of novels including Possession and The Children’s Book, has died, her publisher has confirmed
Jonathan Escoffery: ‘Langston Hughes shifted my worldview’
The Booker-shortlisted US author on a life-changing vampire epic and inspiring writing about race
Just one British writer makes the Booker prize shortlist
Chetna Maroo’s ‘mesmerising’ Western Lane has been chosen for inclusion on a male-dominated list
‘Portraits of what it means to be alive today’: how we chose the 2023 Booker prize shortlist
From Sarah Bernstein’s absurdist novel to Jonathan Escoffery’s astonishingly assured debut, this year’s novels offered a full range of lived experience and made for an exciting shortlist
Pearl by Siân Hughes review – a circling story of memory and loss
Taking a Middle English classic as its inspiration, this is a novel about a lasting grief that echoes through time
Booker prize reveals ‘original and thrilling’ 2023 longlist
Previously nominated authors Sebastian Barry, Tan Twan Eng and Paul Murray join 13-strong field including four debuts
Irish writers, debuts – and groundbreaking sci-fi: the Booker longlist in depth
The personal meets the political in a list that includes dystopia and SF as well as little-known debuts
The Guardian view on nonfiction by women: so much buried treasure
Editorial: Nearly three decades after the founding of the Women’s prize, the fight for space in fiction has largely been won. It’s time to move on to politics, history, science, sport…
Kate Saunders obituary
Prize-winning novelist who won the Costa award for Five Children on the Western Front and whose Belfry Witches stories were adapted for TV
Indian novel about caste becomes first Tamil work longlisted for International Booker prize
Perumal Murugan, who said he had given up writing in 2015 after protests against one of his books, wins selection with Pyre
Eleanor Catton: ‘I felt so much doubt after winning the Booker’
In 2013, at 28, Eleanor Catton became the youngest ever Booker winner with The Luminaries. She talks about adapting the novel for screen, being shut out of her native New Zealand and why it has taken 10 years to write a follow-up
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?
The Guardian view on the Booker: one award with hundreds of judges
Editorial: Many have an opinion on the latest winner of the UK’s top literary prize, Shehan Karunatilaka. It’s a shame not all of them have read his book
Booker prize winner urges people not to circulate pirated copies of his novel
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka spent seven years writing The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which won the prestigious award on Monday, and asks readers to honour the work put into it
‘Writers all want to be rock stars’: Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka on ghosts, war and childish dreams
Set during the Sri Lankan civil war and narrated by a dead man, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is part murder mystery, part political satire and part love story. Its author recalls the grim events that inspired it – and the editor who kept pushing him to do better