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French writer David Diop wins International Booker Prize for his World War I novel At Night All Blood is Black
•Diop's novel, which was published in French in 2018, resonates with present-day debates about racism and colonialism.
International Booker Prize 2021: Argentina's Mariana Enriquez, France's Eric Vuillard among shortlisted authors
•British author Lucy Hughes-Hallett, who is chairing the panel of judges, said the list showed that some of the most exciting new writing is going on “in the borderlands” between fiction and other genres, such as history and memoir.
Writers from four continents nominated for International Booker Prize 2021; winners to be announced in June
•Can Xue’s I Live in the Slums and Ngugi wa Thiong’o's The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gikuyu and Mumbi are among 13 books on the long list for the award.
Amidst criticism against choice of translator, Dutch poet refuses to work on Amanda Gorman's poem
•The publisher said earlier this week that Rijneveld was the translator it had dreamed of and said that “Amanda Gorman herself was also immediately enthusiastic about the choice for the young poet.”
International Booker Prize 2020 shortlist announced; includes titles like The Enlightenment of The Greengage Tree, Tylle among others
Fp Staff •The shortlist of six authors and their translators for this year's International Booker Prize has been announced by The Booker Prize Foundation.
Booker prize to now be sponsored by Silicon Valley billionaire Michael Moritz
Fp Staff •After 18 years of being referred to as the Man Booker Prize, the award will now once again be recognised as the Booker prize from 1 June, when the Man Group's sponsorship ends