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
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
Karunatilaka’s novel, though set during the civil war of the 1990s, seems oddly resonant today
Thresholds of Time and Space
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
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
The joint award to Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo steals the Nobel’s thunder
Many Quests
Six books that define our times, and redefine the novel. And one will be the winner next week
When Booker Comes to Bollywood
The central character badly needs that award to emphasise his heroism
Who Will Win the Booker?
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.
Jesus, Coetzee Is at It Again
He is one of the greatest novelists of his time, but his late novels take him to a grim elsewhere, baffling his devotees
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