‘It’s the best way to live!’: International Booker winners Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell

The Indian novelist and her translator scooped the £50,000 prize with Tomb of Sand, a novel about death – but with laughs. The morning after their triumph they talk about fun, feminism and famous ancestors

‘They are totally smashing it!’ Bernardine Evaristo on the artistic triumph of older Black women

Artists, novelists, actors, poets: from the Venice Biennale to Bridgerton, Black women in their 50s and 60s are finally getting the recognition they deserve, says the pioneering Booker winner

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart review – grit and longing in Glasgow

Young love drives dreams of escape in this immersive follow-up to the Booker-winning Shuggie Bain

Irish novelist Colm Tóibín wins Rathbones Folio prize for The Magician

Fictionalised biography of writer Thomas Mann beats Booker prize-winner Damon Galgut to £30,000 award

Keri Hulme obituary

New Zealand author who won the Booker prize in 1985 for her novel the bone people, and also wrote poetry and short stories

Damon Galgut’s layered feat of fiction is a clear Booker winner

The Promise, about a toxic family in a toxic society, feels like the book this author was born to write

Damon Galgut wins Booker prize with ‘spectacular’ novel The Promise

The novelist takes the £50,000 prize with a ‘strong, unambiguous commentary on the history of South Africa and of humanity itself’

Damon Galgut is ‘all the rage’ favourite to win 2021 Booker prize

Bookmakers place South African novelist at 2/1 to take Wednesday’s award with his novel The Promise, closely followed by Richard Powers’s Bewilderment

A pioneering pilot, a vast wilderness, a drunken afternoon… Booker shortlisted authors reveal their inspirations

Patricia Lockwood, Anuk Arudpragasam, Richard Powers and more on how they made the 2021 shortlist

Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet review – unstable identities

This wry look at 1960s counterculture focuses on an enfant terrible of the anti-psychiatry movement to explore the gaps between appearance and reality

Inside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandals

The long read: Its knack for creating tension and controversy has helped it remain an energising force in publishing for more than 50 years – but how do writers, publishers and judges cope with the annual agony of the Booker?

One in five shortlisted authors for top UK literary prizes in 2020 were black

Racial diversity has gradually increased, after no black authors were shortlisted in four of the years between 1996 and 2009

Nadifa Mohamed is sole British writer to make Booker prize shortlist

The author of The Fortune Men will now compete with five other novelists from South Africa, Sri Lanka and the US for the 2021 award

An Island by Karen Jennings review – stranger on the shore

Longlisted for the Booker prize, Jennings’s tale of a lighthouse keeper and an uninvited guest grapples with colonialism and the plight of refugees

An Island by Karen Jennings review – compact allegory of postcolonialism

This Booker-longlisted fable about the turbulent history of an unnamed African country is small but powerful