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Man Booker Prize

Ritual and Catharsis

Aditya Mani Jha

Two novels shortlisted for the 2020 Man Booker International Prize, by millennial writers, reveal how trauma can become bogeyman

Olga Tokarczuk: Killer Instinct

Olga Tokarczuk won the Man Booker International prize in 2018. The Polish novelist is again in the running with an old-fashioned whodunnit

Comic as Sage

The winner of the 2017 Man Booker International Prize is a wonderfully tailored exploration of the human condition

Out of Africa

The frailties and fantasies of this Man Booker shortlisted novel make it a quiet classic

Book of Life

Richard Flanagan has won the Man Booker for his epic around the Burma Death Railway

A Gentile’s Quest

Howard Jacobson’s Man Booker Prize winner is a searing search for Jewish identity

“I could both do what I wanted to and annoy my parents”

Anne Enright, the Booker-winning author, is in India this month. “I want to disturb areas of the brain that don’t get a workout that often,” she says.

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