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Paul Lynch: ‘When you win the Booker, you are told you won’t write for a year’

The Irish novelist on navigating success shortly after a cancer diagnosis and a marriage breakdown, the renaissance in Irish writing, and how his ‘tragic worldview’ fits the times

The Guardian - UK

A New Zealand politician can’t name a homegrown novel but Kiwi artists have always conquered the world

ACT arts spokesperson Todd Stephenson’s inability to name a New Zealand author for 20 minutes in an interview has rightfully raised eyebrows

The Guardian - AU

International Booker Prize shortlist for 2024 spans three continents

The International Booker Prize celebrates fiction that's been translated into English. This year's shortlist, announced Tuesday morning, features books in six languages from three continents.

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Anne Enright and Isabella Hammad make the Women’s prize for fiction longlist

Three Irish authors – including Claire Kilroy and Megan Nolan – and Booker-shortlisted Brit Chetna Maroo sit among the 16 nominees, eight of them debut novels

The Guardian - UK

With latest surge, Jalen Green turns heads in Houston and beyond

“Jalen Green is going to be a superstar in this league,” a Suns executive said. “He reminds me a lot of Devin [Booker] and what he went through to start his career here.”

USA Today Sports Media Group

Western Lane by Chetna Maroo audiobook review – an agile coming-of-age debut

Maya Saroya narrates the Booker-shortlisted story of how a family channels its grief on the squash court and produces a potential champion

The Guardian - UK

Jonathan Escoffery: ‘I was trying to write novels aged nine’

The If I Survive You author on the suspense of the Booker ceremony, Americans’ warped view of the Caribbean, and writing his next novel on the road

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Come and Get It review: Boring and limp, this is exactly how not to follow a bestseller

Come and Get It is Kiley Reid’s breathlessly anticipated follow-up to her 2020 Booker long-listed triumph Such a Fun Age, which was lauded as an essential and nuanced satire of white privilege, racial microaggressions and gender politics. Published just before the Black Lives Matter movement, it became a key work…

Evening Standard

Five of the best postcolonial novels

A coming-of-age tale in 1930s Barbados, a young man uncovers a terrible secret in rural Sudan and a Booker-winning story of rebellion in India all explore the complex legacy of colonialism

The Guardian - UK

The best fiction books to read in 2024, from David Nicholls to Kiley Reid

Spend your 2024 getting lost in very good novels – there are plenty to choose from. Jessie Thompson shares our guide to the year’s unmissable fiction

The Independent UK

Fiction to look out for in 2024

The first great lockdown novel, new tales from David Nicholls, Sarah Perry and Percival Everett, and Rachel Kushner’s contender for the Booker… next year promises to be special

The Guardian - UK

9 underrated women’s hoops freshmen who deserve more attention, including UConn’s KK Arnold and Texas’ Madison Booker

UConn's KK Arnold, Texas' Madison Booker and seven other freshmen players need more of the spotlight.

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Rory Stewart, Jeanette Winterson and Marlon James announced for Hay festival 2024

The UK literary festival unveils 29 taster events next year and plans to focus on ‘global themes and the impact of issues on the world’

The Guardian - UK

‘This is a wake-up call’: Booker winner Paul Lynch on his novel about a fascist Ireland

The writer was on the operating table for cancer, then exactly a year later he found out his nightmarish vision had made the shortlist. He reveals why the words for Prophet Song came out with such urgency, there was no time for paragraph breaks

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The Independent UK

Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song wins the 2023 Booker Prize – but the judges picked the wrong Paul

Six books, three authors called Paul, one £50,000 prize. In the end, Paul Lynch has taken the spoils for his dystopian tale of a totalitarian Ireland – but it doesn’t feel like a winner that will stand the test of time, writes our chief book critic Martin Chilton

The Conversation

Booker prize 2023: why these shortlisted novels represent a 'golden age' of Irish writing

This year’s Booker prize shortlist is an exciting line up, melding established, prize-winning authors and debut writers. The 2023 shortlist contains two Irish authors – Paul Murray and Paul Lynch – and on the long list of 13 novels, Elaine Feeney’s How to Build a Boat and Sebastian Barry’s Old…

The Guardian - UK

AS Byatt obituary

Novelist whose exhilarating genius came into its own with Possession, a worldwide bestseller and winner of the Booker prize

The Guardian - UK

‘A feeling of total freedom’: Valeria Luiselli welcomes chance to lock her fiction away in the Future Library

The Booker-nominated Mexican author will be the next writer to donate a work to the 100-year art project

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The Independent UK

Black student suspended again after punishment over his hairstyle

Darryl George, 17, has been suspended for a second time for his hairstyle, now his family are considering suing

The Conversation

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀'s new novel is a modern Nigerian tragedy about the rich and the poor

Nigerian writer Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ took the literary world by storm with her debut novel Stay With Me in 2017. Six years later, she has followed up with an equally brilliant second novel, A Spell of Good Things, which has been longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023.

Evening Standard

Booker Prize 2023 longlist announced with 10 new authors in the running

The Booker Prize longlist for 2023 was announced on Tuesday, featuring 10 authors who have never before been in the running for the award.

The Guardian - UK

Booker prize reveals ‘original and thrilling’ 2023 longlist

Previously nominated authors Sebastian Barry, Tan Twan Eng and Paul Murray join 13-strong field including four debuts

Evening Standard

Meet Brandon Taylor: from scientist to the next great American author

Booker-nominated author Brandon Taylor is back with a new novel, The Last Americans, which is set to enhance his reputation as one of the most exciting and uncompromising voices in literature. Jason Okundaye meets him

Al Jazeera

‘Books need time’: Tan Twan Eng’s new novel opens door on history

Malaysian Booker-listed novelist publishes his first book in 10 years; a tale of love and betrayal in colonial Malaya.

The Times of India

Salman Rushdie makes his first public appearance after a brutal attack in 2022

On August 12, 2022, the news of Booker-winner Salman Rushdie being brutally stabbed during an event at the Chautauqua Institute in New York shocked everyone. The attack was so severe that the author lost vision in one eye. And now, nine months after the brutal attack, Rushdie made his first…

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