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.
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.
Autumn is the first novel to tackle the UK’s impending departure from the EU.
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.
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