The 2024 International Booker shortlist reviewed
From a Korean Scheherazade to Brazilian spirits, the grief of surviving a suicide to the magic of brief encounters.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
From a Korean Scheherazade to Brazilian spirits, the grief of surviving a suicide to the magic of brief encounters.
ByThe Booker Prize-winning author on political fiction, the refugee crisis and the “unmistakable” timeliness of his dystopian novel Prophet Song.
ByThe judging panel hasn’t picked an exciting winner in years because there simply hasn’t been one.
ByAlso this week: the art of rejecting authors and how all the best stories are true.
ByThe Bulgarian novelist on the legacy of communism, the necessity of irony and why remembering is a political act.
ByWe might be tempted to see prizes for women as less necessary with each passing year – but non-fiction is…
ByAn unexpected link to a schoolgirl killed in Afghanistan is a reminder that we are all citizens of the world.
ByThe Sri Lankan novelist on growing up amid civil war, turning trauma into satire, and winning the 2022 prize.
ByChildren’s writers used to be treated with slovenly contempt. The Whitbread and Costa showed we were worth taking seriously.
ByThe author of Tomb of Sand on writing in Hindi, the politics of daily life, and why “people think English…
ByI look forward to telling my grandson his birth was toasted within a few hours alongside the 2021 Booker winner.
ByThe author on racism in the US, the long legacy of apartheid, and why his writing is not influenced by…
ByNeuroscience, astrobiology and ecocide mix in the American author’s Booker-shortlisted new novel.
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