Douglas Stuart, author of the Booker prize-winning Shuggie Bain.
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The story of child poverty in 1980s Glasgow speaks to current concerns across the UK.
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Only three non-English UK-based authors have ever won the Booker prize. And all three of them were published by London presses.
Teresa Wong’s ‘Dear Scarlet,’ Jeff Lemire’s ‘Essex County,’ and recently nominated for a 2020 Canadian literary prize, Seth’s ‘Clyde Fans.’
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Canada’s Scotiabank Giller Prize didn’t shortlist a graphic novel, but are we surprised? The slow but increasing acceptance of graphic novels suggests the glacial pace at which literary canons grow.
SIngapore Grip: the final book in JG Farrell’s Empire Trilogy.
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The writer was drowned at the age of 44, but he left three novels which have come to represent the decline of the British Empire.
Top selection: the 2020 Booker Prize longlist.
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The Booker Prize has always struggled with inclusivity.
Thomas Cromwell by Hans Holbein.
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Mantel’s prize-winning novels put imaginary flesh on the skeletal historical record and gives us the complete picture of the Tudor courtier.
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Two brilliant novels, two deserving writers. Sometimes you need to have two prizes.
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What was a thoroughly English book has become a multilingual, ever-changing global text continually putting down roots in different cultures.
Winners: author Jokha Alharthi (left) and translator Marilyn Booth (right) at the 2019 Man Booker International awards ceremony in May 2019.
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Jokha Alharthi is the first woman from Oman to have a book translated into English.
Annie Ernaux.
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From the Archives: Ernaux’s English translation, Happening, has come to be seen as one of the great pieces of writing about abortion.
This year’s shortlisted novels.
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Rules for the UK’s most prestigious and lucrative literary prize effectively mean it is dominated by big publishers.
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Writing is a solitary art. But authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize have to perform in public. Here’s how this year’s crop fared.
Illustration from NickDrnaso’s Sabrina.
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Graphic novels have a long history and are becoming an ever-more popular way of bringing profound and complex stories to life.
In this 1999 photo, author Michael Ondaatje poses at Coach House Press in Toronto. In addition to receiving a coveted spot on the 2018 Man Booker longlist for ‘Warlight,’ Michael Ondaatje recently won the Golden Man Booker prize for his critically acclaimed novel ‘The English Patient.’
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The meanings of Ondaatje’s Golden Man Booker win is complicated and demonstrates the contradictions of literary value. Literary prizes permit us to imagine that literature is more than a commodity.
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The Booker Prize is 50 – and to celebrate it, there’s a mega prize.
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The ability to speak more than one language informs many writers of fiction, but analysis of Booker Prize shortlists suggests this is not so important any more.
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His recent death will lead to some old debates about his work returning – but are they still valid?
Small Australian presses are publishing more contemporary works originally written in languages other than English.
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In the face of mounting political isolationism, translated fiction might just be the thing to save us.
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The best translated fiction available in English.
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The Booker Prize jury has done us a favour by drawing attention to this book.