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'Literature wields power': Taiwan Travelogue, a 1930s romance, makes International Booker Prize history

May 20, 2026 5:41 am

Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translator Lin King take the £50,000 prize for the first Taiwanese novel, and the first book translated from Mandarin Chinese, ever to win the award

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International Booker 2026 shortlist: Indian-origin translator Padma Viswanathan in running

April 10, 2026 7:52 pm

Padma Viswanathan, a Canadian-American translator of Indian origin, is among the six finalists for the £50,000 prize, which celebrates the best fiction in translation.

In David Szalay’s Booker Prize-winning novel ‘Flesh’, the ways of men

November 12, 2025 8:58 am

At a time when conversations around toxic and performative masculinity dominate both culture and critique, Szalay’s refusal to join the chorus or offer a prescription feels both unsettling and subversive

The Booker Prize 2025 Winner: David Szalay is the author of six works of fiction.

Who is David Szalay, the 2025 Booker Prize winner?

November 16, 2025 1:00 pm

David Szalay’s hypnotic novel Flesh, about a man undone by his own desires, wins the Booker Prize and crowns its author as a major voice in fiction.

The Booker Prize 2025 Winner: The Booker Prize 2025, Nobel Prize in Literature 2025: László Krasznahorkai and David Szalay are both authors of Hungarian heritage.

A Hungarian autumn: After László Krasznahorkai's Nobel win, David Szalay bags the Booker

November 16, 2025 10:12 am

Two writers, worlds apart yet bound by Hungary, claim literature’s highest prizes — László Krasznahorkai for his visionary despair, David Szalay for his cool dissection of modern life.

2025 Booker Prize: David Szalay has been named the winner of the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh.

Kiran Desai misses out, Flesh by David Szalay takes the Booker

November 15, 2025 7:27 pm

Announcement of the International Booker Prize 2025 — winners name, reactions, and key moments.

The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist (Credit: Yuki Sugiura for Booker Prize Foundation)

Everything you need to know about the Booker Prize 2025

November 13, 2025 8:02 pm

Booker Prize 2025: Origin, history and who might win this year

A look at the 6 novels shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize

November 13, 2025 7:57 pm

Booker Prize 2025: Here’s what to know about the books and writers vying for the world’s most prestigious literary prize.

Katie Kitamura, author of the Booker shortlisted novel Audition. (katiekitamura.com/Penguin)

Katie Kitamura’s Audition turns life into a stage

November 13, 2025 7:55 pm

Katie Kitamura's Audition blurs the line between life and performance, turning self-recognition into the novel’s most unsettling illusion

Benjamin Markovits: In The Rest of Our Lives, Markovits maps the emotional geography of a man running out of road.

The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits review — a midlife journey between fiction and fatigue

November 13, 2025 7:51 pm

On the Booker shortlist: The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits is a novel of emotional accuracy if occasionally too quiet for its own good.

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Booker Prize-winning British author Hilary Mantel passes away at 70; her life in pictures

September 23, 2022 7:10 pm

The author, winner of the Booker Prize for her celebrated Wolf Hall saga in 2009 and 2012, had dealt “stoically” with chronic health problems, according to her literary agent Bill Hamilton.