Rocco worked on the prize from the beginning, when it was the Man Booker International Prize – a biennial prize launched in 2005 for a body of work and open to authors from around the world.

Join the IrishCentral Book Club this July as we read the award-winning novel "Milkman" by Belfast author Anna Burns.

Banu Mushtaq, the trailblazing Indian author who made history in May by winning the International Booker Prize for her novel Heart Lamp, says the award marks a collective victory – for literature, for ...

Egyptian writer Salwa Bakr, Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh and Irish author John Banville have been nominated for the 14th Park Kyongni Award, according to the To ...

June saw the loss of several influential figures in music, sports, and beyond. Brian Wilson was the creative force behind The ...

Scottish author and broadcaster Val McDermid will be awarded an honorary degree from University of Edinburgh as part of its ...

The season’s most noteworthy new releases include Thomas Pynchon’s latest, autofiction by Patricia Lockwood, and Mona Awad’s ...

This Dallas-based press has been publishing international books for 12 years. Among its latest releases is this novel from ...

The publisher Alexandra Pringle, Bloomsbury's editor-in-chief, adored Deborah Levy’s novel Swimming Home when she read the ...

Max Porter, Chair of the 2025 International Booker Prize judges, praised Heart Lamp as a standout from the outset. “This was the book the judges really loved, right from our first reading,” he ...

A real-life family tragedy is the basis for this International Booker-shortlisted fable of duty, attachment and mental illness Under the Eye of the Big Bird — extinction rebellion ...

The International Booker Prize awards a total of £50,000, shared equally between author and translator, with each shortlisted pair also receiving £2,500. The winner will be announced at a ...