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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

The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2024

Gordon Burn prize announces ‘blazing’ shortlist

Seven-strong shortlist of boundary-pushing books ranges from an Arctic coming-of-age novel to nonfiction about the IRA’s Brighton bombing

The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2024

Yankee Swap: a short story by the Booker-nominated author Jonathan Escoffery

A cab driver’s first ride of the day takes an unexpected turn in this exclusive Christmas tale

The Guardian - UK · Dec 23, 2023

Two debut books make the prestigious Booker Prize shortlist

Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You and Chetna Maroo's Western Lane are among the contenders for this year's prize, which honors the best English-language fiction published in the U.K. and Ireland.

WEKU · Sep 21, 2023

Booker Prize 2023: Six shortlisted authors tackle immigration, identity and the climate crisis

All six authors are shortlisted for the prestigious award for the first time, with their work exploring themes of sisterhood, immigration, conflict and change

The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2023

‘Portraits of what it means to be alive today’: how we chose the 2023 Booker prize shortlist

From Sarah Bernstein’s absurdist novel to Jonathan Escoffery’s astonishingly assured debut, this year’s novels offered a full range of lived experience and made for an exciting shortlist

The Guardian - UK · Sep 21, 2023

Just one British writer makes the Booker prize shortlist

Chetna Maroo’s ‘mesmerising’ Western Lane has been chosen for inclusion on a male-dominated list

The Guardian - UK · Sep 21, 2023

Irish writers, debuts – and groundbreaking sci-fi: the Booker longlist in depth

The personal meets the political in a list that includes dystopia and SF as well as little-known debuts

The Guardian - UK · Aug 1, 2023

If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery review – dazzling debut of racial identity

Eight linked short stories, set mostly in Miami, vividly evoke the experiences of a young Black man in search of a sense of belonging

The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2023

Holiday books: Fiction

“The Marriage Portrait,” by Maggie O’Farrell. (Knopf, $28.)

Tribune News Service · Dec 7, 2022