Never Let Me Go was once dismissed by critics for its “dear-diary” prose, but 20 years later the novelist’s masterwork still unsettles.

From 2005 to 2015, the Man Booker International Prize was awarded for a writer’s entire body of work, not a specific book. From 2016 onwards, it became an award for a single translated work.

But I am a fine one to talk. My own tiny excursion into the world of prize judging, the Man Booker of 2005, resulted in The Sea by John Banville winning, rather than the masterpiece Never Let Me Go.

Booker Prize 2025 longlist celebrates Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi’s effort in a collection of short stories about Muslim ...

I was literary editor, and later also film critic, of the London Evening Standard. What was not allowed, for anyone still ...

Kannada literature has previously gained international recognition when renowned writer U.R. Ananthamurthy’s novel Samskara was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013.

Translated from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi, the book of 12 short stories will be published in India and the UK in April 2025.

The International Booker Prize 2025 longlist (a selection of individuals, books, or works under consideration for a prize, from which a final shortlist of the most deserving candidates will be ...

Tanzanian-British writer Abdulrazak Gurnah on running out of money – and his take on the toppling of statues of controversial ...

"[It's] about the lives of women and their children, and their relationships with men ...I push back at the idea that there ...