Bernice Rubens, first woman to win Booker, honoured with Cardiff plaque
Scholars and politicians to attend unveiling of memorial at family home of only Welsh winner of literary prize
May 2024
Observer New Review Q&A
BookTok star Jack Edwards: ‘I got to interview the Gruffalo last year. They say don’t meet your idols’
Observer New Review Q&A
Paul Lynch: ‘When you win the Booker, you are told you won’t write for a year’
April 2024
Booker prize urged to consider name change over slavery link
Broadcaster Richie Brave, whose ancestors were enslaved, says organisers should be ‘asking themselves some questions’
Maryse Condé obituary
Writer whose novels trace the complexities of a globalised world and the fortunes of families across continents and generations
Latin American authors on rise in International Booker prize lists
Today’s boom in Latin American literature is spearheaded by women, from Fernanda Melchor, Mariana Enriquez to Samanta Schweblin, who engage with femicide, trauma and violence through horror and speculative fiction
January 2024
Books interview
Jonathan Escoffery: ‘I was trying to write novels aged nine’
The If I Survive You author on the suspense of the Booker ceremony, Americans’ warped view of the Caribbean, and writing his next novel on the road
November 2023
The Guardian view on utopias: news from nowhere can help us here and now
‘This is a wake-up call’: Booker winner Paul Lynch on his novel about a fascist Ireland
‘Escape to another world’: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on reading in prison
‘Soul-shattering’ Prophet Song by Paul Lynch wins 2023 Booker prize
Paul Lynch’s timely Booker winner is a novel written to jolt the reader awake
Justine Jordan
Bookies make the three Pauls their favourites to win 2023 Booker prize
Booker prize 2023: will the judges talk themselves out of the right choice?
AS Byatt, author and critic, dies aged 87
The books of my life
Jonathan Escoffery: ‘Langston Hughes shifted my worldview’
September 2023
‘Portraits of what it means to be alive today’: how we chose the 2023 Booker prize shortlist
Just one British writer makes the Booker prize shortlist
August 2023
Pearl by Siân Hughes review – a circling story of memory and loss
Booker prize reveals ‘original and thrilling’ 2023 longlist
