Only three non-English UK-based authors have ever won the Booker prize. And all three of them were published by London presses.
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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.
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.
The Booker Prize has always struggled with inclusivity.
Mantel’s prize-winning novels put imaginary flesh on the skeletal historical record and gives us the complete picture of the Tudor courtier.
Two brilliant novels, two deserving writers. Sometimes you need to have two prizes.
What was a thoroughly English book has become a multilingual, ever-changing global text continually putting down roots in different cultures.
Jokha Alharthi is the first woman from Oman to have a book translated into English.
From the Archives: Ernaux’s English translation, Happening, has come to be seen as one of the great pieces of writing about abortion.
Rules for the UK’s most prestigious and lucrative literary prize effectively mean it is dominated by big publishers.
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.
Graphic novels have a long history and are becoming an ever-more popular way of bringing profound and complex stories to life.
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.
The Booker Prize is 50 – and to celebrate it, there’s a mega prize.
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.
His recent death will lead to some old debates about his work returning – but are they still valid?
In the face of mounting political isolationism, translated fiction might just be the thing to save us.
The best translated fiction available in English.
The Booker Prize jury has done us a favour by drawing attention to this book.
George Saunders has become the second American to win the Man Booker.
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