‘Hope, insight and burning humanity’: 2026 International Booker prize shortlist announced | Books

‘Hope, insight and burning humanity’: 2026 International Booker prize shortlist announced | Books

Daniel Kehlmann, Marie NDiaye and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ are among the six authors shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker prize, as the award marks its 10th anniversary. The annual prize celebrates the best... Read more »
Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist | International Booker prize

Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist | International Booker prize

Olga Ravn, Daniel Kehlmann, Ia Genberg, Mathias Énard and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara are among those longlisted for the International Booker prize, which recognises the best translated fiction and turns 10 this year.... Read more »
How Translations Sell: Three U.S. Eras of International Bestsellers

How Translations Sell: Three U.S. Eras of International Bestsellers

A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it. In 2008, the publisher Alfred A. Knopf published Stieg Larsson’s posthumous The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; this was... Read more »
Edinburgh book festival to focus on hope with line-up including Kureishi and Sturgeon | Edinburgh international book festival

Edinburgh book festival to focus on hope with line-up including Kureishi and Sturgeon | Edinburgh international book festival

The Edinburgh book festival is to champion the positive power of hope later this summer with events involving Hanif Kureishi, the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish and an exiled Brazilian tribal leader. The... Read more »
Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist | International Booker prize

‘Radical translation’ of Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker prize | International Booker prize

Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, has won this year’s International Booker prize for translated fiction, becoming the first short story collection to take the award. The stories were... Read more »
‘Mind-expanding books’: International Booker prize shortlist announced | Books

‘Mind-expanding books’: International Booker prize shortlist announced | Books

Hiromi Kawakami and Solvej Balle have made this year’s International Booker prize shortlist, which for the first time is comprised entirely of books published by independent presses. British translator Sophie Hughes has... Read more »
‘Mind-expanding books’: International Booker prize shortlist announced | Books

All 13 writers on International Booker longlist are first-time nominees

Book News: All 13 writers on International Booker longlist are first-time nominees ... Read more »
‘Mind-expanding books’: International Booker prize shortlist announced | Books

International Publishers call on Frankfurt to cut ties with Israel

Book News: International Publishers call on Frankfurt to cut ties with Israel BookBrowse News – The Full Story International... Read more »
Yavuz Ekinci terrorist propaganda charges in Turkey are ‘bogus’, says PEN International | Books

Yavuz Ekinci terrorist propaganda charges in Turkey are ‘bogus’, says PEN International | Books

PEN International has called on Turkish authorities to drop “bogus” charges against the writer Yavuz Ekinci. Ekinci, whose work focuses on the plight of Kurdish people in Turkey, has been charged with... Read more »
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