From a longlist of 12, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2023 Booker prize.
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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 Booker Prize is 50 – and to celebrate it, there’s a mega prize.
George Saunders has become the second American to win the Man Booker.
Some advice to Man Booker winner Paul Beatty on how to cope with his newfound fame.
What counts as literature? It’s less to do with genre than we think.
This year’s competition includes a more eclectic range of writers than perhaps we’ve become used to.
Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island is certainly an epoch-defining novel, at least inasmuch as it revolves around the task of defining our epoch.
The book prize is the publisher’s answer to the persistent grumble that fiction is in its death throes; an attempt to combat the perceived threat of the digital.
The release of the long list has opened the gates to the annual torrents of literary hobnobbing.
Joan London’s The Golden Age won the Kibble Award last week, having been shortlisted – but unsuccessful – in several high-profile prizes previously. Deciding on winners is a highly subjective process.
While How to Be Both may be set in the Renaissance and the 1960s, its truths about inequality are just as relevant today.
The runaway success of Ali Smith’s How to be Both signals a new and original approach to 21st-century historical fiction.
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Emeritus Professor of Australian Literature, University of Sydney
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Honorary Associate in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Professor of Modern Languages and Creative Futures, Lancaster University
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Professor of English Literature, University of Surrey
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Professor of English, University of Sussex
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Senior Lecturer in English, University of Huddersfield
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Deputy Director for Creative Writing, University of Nottingham
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DPhil in English Literature, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University
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Reader in Literature, University of Portsmouth
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PhD Candidate, Department of English, Carleton University
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Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture, Newcastle University
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Professor of Irish Literature, University of Manchester
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FBA Professor of English Literature, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, De Montfort University
