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Remembering Shahrnush Parsipur, the Iranian feminist literary icon
July 08, 2026 9:06 pm
Novelist Shahrnush Parsipur was jailed four times under two Iranian regimes for the writing that gave voice to women silenced by both.
International Booker Prize at 10: How it became the face of literature in translation
May 23, 2026 2:02 pm
A decade since its reinvention, the award has worked to give translators, independent publishers a seat at the global table
Heart Lamp, then Taiwan Travelogue: This not-for-profit published back-to-back International Booker winners
May 25, 2026 5:33 am
How a small, not-for-profit publisher based in a Sheffield library beat the big names to make International Booker Prize history twice.
'Nuanced, layered, sumptuous': Taiwan Travelogue, a 1930s romance, makes International Booker Prize history
May 26, 2026 6:57 pm
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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Inside Taiwan Travelogue: This year’s Booker winner
June 01, 2026 9:42 am
Taiwan Travelogue, the winner of the International Booker Prize 2026, is a metafictional historical novel written by Taiwanese author Yang Shuang-zi and translated into English by Lin King. Get to know more about it.
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.
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