Booker Prize
Leila Mottley: long-listed for the Booker prize at 19
Leila Mottley is the youngest writer ever to be long-listed for the Booker Prize. She was 17 when her book Nightcrawling was completed and 19 when it was published by Bloomsbury worldwide. The… Audio
Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart: 'I grew up poor and queer'
Scottish writer Douglas Stuart recently won the 2020 Booker Prize for his debut novel Shuggie Bain. Before its success, the book was rejected more than 30 times by various publishers. Set in 1980s… Audio
Graham Swift: Booker prize winner's latest novel
Good literature retains a magical quality that is both enlightening and subversive, offering an authentic inner experience of life, English Booker Prize-winning novelist Graham Swift says. Audio
Salman Rushdie - Reimagining Don Quixote
Salman Rushdie was catapulted to literary fame when his second novel Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981.His controversial 1988 book, The Satanic Verses, inspired in part by the life of… Audio
Arundhati Roy - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist and activist. After a childhood in Kerala, she moved to Delhi at age 16, eventually studying architecture at the Delhi School of Architecture while dreaming of a… Audio
Francis Plug: Alcoholic wannabe author
Author Paul Ewen on his comical creation, the alcoholic, Booker prize-obsessed, wannabe writer Francis Plug who causes chaos when he meets prize-winning authors. In his book Francis Plug: How to be a… Audio