An extract from Irish writer Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize-winning novel Prophet Song
Lauded novel has been adapted into a play, set to hit local stages later this year
The author discusses the trilogy of novels that propelled her onto the Booker shortlist, and their relevance to present-day Zimbabwe
As war drums beat again in Ethiopia, author Maaza Mengiste finds new language to memorialise the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
Eleanor Catton, winner of the 2013 Man Booker prize, is bothered by the uneven treatment accorded to men and women in the public eye.
As the Man Booker prize extends its call for entries to countries such as the US, some fear this move will degrade the prestigious contest.
Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo is the only African on the Booker longlist that includes celebrated authors like Colm Tóibín and Jim Crace.
Tan Twan Eng uses the concepts that underpin Japanese gardens and the ancient Chinese gardens on which they are based to construct this unusual novel.
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/ 21 October 2011
British novelist Julian Barnes finally won the literary prize that has eluded him on three previous occasions.
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/ 18 October 2011
It has insults, rivalries and bitter accusations. The battle for Britain’s most prestigious literary award is proving to be a page-turner.
<b>Justine Jordan</b> reviews Julian Barnes’s novella that has been shortlisted for the Booker prize.
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/ 7 September 2010
South African author Damon Galgut has been nominated for a Booker Prize for his novel, <i>In a Strange Room</i>.
He may be about to make history, but JM Coetzee will not be ruining his reputation as a reclusive writer by turning up at the Booker Prize ceremony.
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/ 9 September 2009
South African author JM Coetzee is in the running for an unprecedented third Booker Prize, after he was named on this year’s shortlist on Tuesday.
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/ 17 October 2008
Ion Trewin, literary director of the Man Booker Prize, talks to Darryl Accone on the eve of the 40th Booker.
Salman Rushdie’s epoch-making novel <i>Midnight’s Children</i> is the best-ever winner of the Man Booker (literary) prize, according to a public vote.
Salman Rushdie is probably the Booker Prize’s best-known winner. Now he is officially the best.
Postcolonial novels dominate the judges’ selection of some of the most revered novels of the past 40 years, writes Charlotte Higgins.