Booker Prize

Here to Eternity

Nandini Nair

Six novels, by five women and one man, about grief and friendship, forgiveness and atonement, contend for the Booker Prize

Paul Lynch: The Soothsayer

Nandini Nair

The Irish author’s Booker Prize-winning novel makes the impossible seem possible

Shehan Karunatilaka: We’ve lived through war, but the great thing is there’s still hope

Nandini Nair

Shehan Karunatilaka is out with a collection of short stories, soon after his Booker win. The Sri Lankan author in conversation with Open

Booker prize 2022 winner: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Nandini Nair

Karunatilaka’s novel, though set during the civil war of the 1990s, seems oddly resonant today

A finely delineated and sharply observed story of a middle-class Delhi family during Partition, by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell, wins the International Booker Prize. A first for a translation from India

The Final Six

Nandini Nair

The 2021 Booker Prize shortlist tells of the persistence of grief, the deceptions of online prattle, the call of the wild, racial inequality and the triumph of the human spirit

An Unlikely Pair

Mini Kapoor

The joint award to Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo steals the Nobel’s thunder

Many Quests

Nandini Nair

Six books that define our times, and redefine the novel. And one will be the winner next week

When Booker Comes to Bollywood

Rachel Dwyer

The central character badly needs that award to emphasise his heroism

Who Will Win the Booker?

Nandini Nair

With three men and three women on the list, and with ages ranging from 35 (Ottessa Moshfegh) to 57 (Deborah Levy) the Man Booker shortlist appears to be unusually balanced.