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The shortlist is out, but who wins? You decide.
America’s answer to Kafka and Dostoevsky gets real at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Some advice to Man Booker winner Paul Beatty on how to cope with his newfound fame.
Bob Dylan is now a literary celebrity. And next week, the Booker Prize judges will anoint another. The tag is still chiefly attached to men but women authors shouldn’t despair: fame and good writing can be uneasy bedfellows.
What counts as literature? It’s less to do with genre than we think.
It begins and ends with tone, according to the Nigerian writer.
This year’s competition includes a more eclectic range of writers than perhaps we’ve become used to.
Marlon James won the Booker Prize this week with a book that focuses on the unrest and violence of 1970s Jamaica, a troubled chapter that continues to shape the island nation’s present - and its future.
Whether it’s ethnicity, gender or publishing firm, the Man Booker must do more to correct its poor track record.
Marlon James becomes the first Jamaican to win the Man Booker Prize, from a shortlist of novels which reshaped the English language.
Anne Tyler’s Booker short-listed novel is an exquisite meditation on family life.
Male friendship is often overlooked in the 20th-century novel, but in her Booker short-listed novel Yanagihara places it centre.
Marlon James’s book is a whirlwind of different voices ostensibly about the infamous failed assassination of Bob Marley in 1976.
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.
Framing younger writers’ work within the footsteps of giants is always fraught with risk; the risk of shadowing the merits and faults of the former in an attempt to assess the legacy of the latter.
The release of the long list has opened the gates to the annual torrents of literary hobnobbing.
You might have thought that the world’s most prestigious prize for fiction was a level playing field. In fact, rule changes have made it much easier for big publishers to dominate.
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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Professor in English Literature, University of Liverpool
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Tutor in Publishing, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Assistant Professor, American University of Paris (AUP)
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Deputy Director for Creative Writing, University of Nottingham
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Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture, Newcastle University
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Leverhulme Early Career Reseach Fellow, University of Warwick
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD Candidate, Department of English, Carleton University
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Lecturer in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, University of Aberdeen
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Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Cultural Engagement, Professor of English Literature, University of Liverpool
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Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor in Publishing Studies, University of Stirling
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Professor of English, University of Surrey
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Professor of English, University of Sussex
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