Valentino forms new partnership with International Booker Prize Culture May 6, 2024 Five hundred sets of the prize’s six shortlisted books will be donated to libraries across the UK via The Reading Agency.
Perumal Murugan's 'Pyre' first Tamil work longlisted for International Booker Prize People April 21, 2023 He makes an astounding comeback, after giving up and declaring himself ‘dead’ as a writer because of vicious protests against his oeuvre.
Tan Twan Eng is first Malaysian International Booker Prize judge Culture March 2, 2023 He is drawn to well-constructed and well-written books, unpretentious novels that do not waste the reader’s time and speak to both the head and heart.
'Tomb of Sand' by Geetanjali Shree wins 2022 International Booker Prize Culture August 10, 2022 Translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, it is the first book originally written in any Indian language to bag the award.
'At Night All Blood is Black' by David Diop gives unfiltered access to an African man's experience of war Culture July 2, 2022 The unsettling tale, translated by Anna Moschovakis, won the International Booker Prize last year.
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s 'The Discomfort of Evening' wins International Booker Prize 2020 Culture November 27, 2020 The movingly laconic novel marks the return of the novel of the interior.