Man Booker Prize
latest news & developmentsReview: ‘The Mirror & the Light’ or, the fall of Thomas Cromwell
Hilary Mantel’s final volume in the ‘Wolf Hall’ trilogy is a triumphant end to her depiction of the blacksmith’s boy who became the king of England’s right-hand man
Good, evil and poetry in between the stories
The Cosmic Destiny is about good versus evil, love versus hate, freedom versus bondage, peace versus war and silence versus noise.
Festival to bookend all festivals
Once a year Jaipur becomes a literary wonderland, packed with people mad about the written word
Paul Beatty: Exploring race without limits
Paul Beatty touches on key issues but writes in such a way that he doesn’t have to speak for black people
Roy brings nationalists no joy
The writer-activist’s return to fiction remains as unsparing of India’s failings as her nonfiction
Paul Beatty’s Man Booker achievement a first for the United States
Authors from the country only became eligible for the award in 2014.
South Korean author scoops Man Booker prize
Author and creative writing teacher Han Kang has won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel ‘The Vegetarian’.
Novel on the attempted assassination of Bob Marley makes the Man Booker long list
Jamaican author Marlon James’s book, A Brief History of Seven Killings, is one of the 13 novels that made it onto the Man Booker Prize long list.
All you need to know about the Man Booker International Prizewinner
Praised by Susan Sontag and WG Sebald, Krasznahorkai’s fans include a film director whose life’s mission is to bring his novels to the screen.
Booker prize chief Ion Trewin dies aged 71
Journalist turned publisher, whose achievements included editing Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark, had been battling cancer since last year.
SA poet shortlisted for 6th Man Booker International Prize
Marlene Van Niekerk’s "two masterpieces" detail the aggravations of the political transition in South Africa – particularly for Afrikaners.
Man Booker prize in worthy hands
Australian Richard Flanagan triumphed with The Road to the Deep North, a "magnificent novel of love and war" at the Man Booker prize.
Man Booker prize longlist announced
Despite a change in rules that sparked fears Americans would dominate the prize, the final Man Booker longlist reflects a ‘vintage year’ of fiction.
Young Catton wins Booker
Eleanor Catton (28) became the youngest writer to win the Man Booker prize when The Luminaries, took the 45th Booker at the awards dinner this week.
New Zealand’s Eleanor Catton wins Man Booker prize
The youngest winner in the award’s 45-year history, 28-year-old novelist Eleanor Catton has taken home the 2013 Man Booker prize.