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Chair of International Booker Prize judging panel calls for translator royalties

International Booker Prize judging panel chairman Frank Wynne has said “it is only fair that translators benefit from bestsellers and prize-winners that they have helped to create”. The panel of judges last week announced 13 books for this year’s ...

15 Mar 2022 at 21:55

European and female authors dominate International Booker Prize shortlist

European and female authors have dominated the 2024 International Booker Prize shortlist. The six books, which focus on issues such as racism and oppression, are competing for the translated fiction award, which splits the £50,000 prize money ...

09 Apr 2024 at 15:39

2022 International Booker Prize longlist announced

Olga Tokarczuk and David Grossman are in the running to win their second International Booker Prize for Fiction. The judges have announced 13 books for this years longlist, chosen from 135 novels published in the UK or Ireland by writers of ...

10 Mar 2022 at 10:55

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Andrey Kurkov and Maryse Conde on International Booker Prize list

Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov and acclaimed Guadeloupe-born writer Maryse Conde are among 13 contenders announced for the International Booker Prize for translated fiction. Kurkov, 61, who has written widely for western publications on ...

14 Mar 2023 at 19:38

World

Bulgarian writer wins International Booker Prize for darkly comic memory novel

Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel won the International Booker Prize on Tuesday for Time Shelter, a darkly comic novel about the dangerous appeal of nostalgia. The book beat five other finalists to the prize, ...

23 May 2023 at 22:45

Jenny Erpenbeck becomes first German writer to win International Booker Prize

Jenny Erpenbeck has become the first German writer to win the International Booker Prize. Erpenbeck, who began as an opera director in the 1990s, wrote Kairos about the end of the Cold War in Germany, and will split the £50,000 prize ...

21 May 2024 at 22:40

One Day star among actors reading from International Booker Prize shortlist

One Day star Ambika Mod and The Tick actor Peter Serafinowicz are among the famous faces selected to bring their “hugely gratifying” readings of the International Booker Prize shortlist to a series of films. Booker, which has been ...

17 Apr 2025 at 14:00

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Geetanjali Shree becomes first Indian winner of International Booker Prize

Geetanjali Shree has become the first Indian winner of the International Booker Prize for her novel Tomb of Sand. The book follows the story of an 80-year-old woman after the death of her husband and is set during the partition ...

27 May 2022 at 15:29

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