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 »
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 »
Book News: All 13 writers on International Booker longlist are first-time nominees
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Book News: International Publishers call on Frankfurt to cut ties with Israel
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PEN International has called on Turkish authorities to drop âbogusâ charges against the writer Yavuz Ekinci. Ekinci, whose work focuses on the plight of Kurdish people in Turkey, has been charged with... Read more »
The Edinburgh international book festival (EIBF) has announced the end of its 20-year partnership with Baillie Gifford. Last week the Hay literary festival also dropped its sponsorship from the investment management firm... Read more »
Jenny Erpenbeck and Michael Hofmann have won the 2024 International Booker prize for Erpenbeck’s “personal and political” novel Kairos, translated by Hofmann from German. Erpenbeck is the first German writer to win,... Read more »