Booker Prize

The Climate Fiction Prize has announced its first shortlist.

 
By Brittany Allen  March 19, 2025
In Conversation

“Only That Which Does Not Teach Is Irresistible.” Charlotte Wood on Faith, Mortality, and Her Booker-Shortlisted Novel

By Eric Olson  February 14, 2025
The Lit Hub Podcast

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Fund Drives, Merve Emre, and… Do Awards Even Matter?

By The Lit Hub Podcast   November 29, 2024
The Hub

And the winner of the 2024 Booker Prize is . . .

By Jessie Gaynor  November 12, 2024
The Hub

Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2024 Booker Prize.

By Emily Temple  November 8, 2024
Languages

The Yinzers of Glasgow: On the Scottish Origins of Pittsburgh’s Unique Dialect

By Ed Simon  May 15, 2024
The Hub

The shortlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize has landed.

By Brittany Allen  April 9, 2024
The Hub

Maryse Condé, international literary giant, has died at 90.

By Brittany Allen  April 2, 2024
African Literature

Sakiru Adebayo on the Diasporization of African Literature

By Sakiru Adebayo  December 18, 2023
The Hub

Booker judge admits it’s nearly impossible to read ALL the books.

By Jonny Diamond  November 28, 2023
The Hub

Here is the 2023 Booker Prize longlist!

By Janet Manley  August 1, 2023
The Booker Revisited

On the Nested Worlds of Novelist Marina Warner

By Lucy Scholes  April 3, 2023
The Booker Revisted

The Booker Revisited: Why Everyone Should Read Francis King’s The Nick of Time

By Lucy Scholes  March 1, 2023
The Hub

And the winner of the 2022 Booker Prize is . . .

By Emily Temple  October 17, 2022
The Hub

Here’s the shortlist for the 2022 Booker Prize.

By Corinne Segal  September 6, 2022
The Hub

Survey says: the Booker is the most important literary prize in the world.

By Walker Caplan  December 23, 2021
The Hub

Here’s every Booker Prize winner of the 21st century.

By Book Marks  November 3, 2021
The Hub

And the winner of the 2021 Booker Prize is . . .

By Emily Temple  November 3, 2021
The Virtual Book Channel

WATCH: Short Film Adaptations of All Six Booker Prize Finalists

By The Virtual Book Channel  November 3, 2021
The Hub

Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2021 Booker Prize.

By Emily Temple  November 2, 2021
The Hub

A former Great British Bake Off host is judging the Booker Prize this year.

By Eliza Smith  July 14, 2021
Booker Prize

Talking to the Editor Behind Back-to-Back Booker Prizes

By Katie Yee  November 24, 2020
The Hub

Tremble, puny book awards, before the awesome power of Obama’s memoir.

By Dan Sheehan  September 29, 2020
The Hub

The Booker Prize shortlist includes four debut novels and zero novels by Hilary Mantel.

By Emily Temple  September 15, 2020
The Hub

Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga was arrested during anti-corruption protests.

By Corinne Segal  July 31, 2020
The Hub

Jack Reacher Lee Child announced as one of five Booker Prize judges.

By Jonny Diamond  January 7, 2020
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