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In the world of Booker this week: Explore our International Booker Prize 2023 reading guides; your last chance to win the shortlist; and get ready for our May Book of the Month
Discover our reading guides to the books on the International Booker Prize 2023 shortlist
Whether you’re new to the books on this year’s list or have already read them and would like to explore them more deeply, our comprehensive guides are designed to expand your reading. They’re packed with insights from critics, the judges and even the authors and translators themselves, as well as discussion points and suggestions for further reading.
Last chance to enter: Win a set of all six books on the shortlist
Don’t miss our latest competition, where we’re giving you the chance to win a set of all six novels that are in contention for this year’s International Booker Prize. This competition closes on April 28 at 12pm BST (UK time) and is open to readers anywhere in the world. We have five sets of books to give away.
Stay tuned for our May Book of the Month
We hope you enjoyed reading our latest Book of the Month – Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel – with us throughout April. We loved reading your comments about the novel and the author here on Substack and on our social channels. Next week, we’ll be unveiling our latest Book of the Month - can you guess which Booker title we’re revisiting from the quote above?
We’d love you to join us once again throughout May where we’ll share a detailed reading guide, an extract, and in-depth essays, as well as another exclusive competition to win a copy of the book and a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag.
And finally… Your chance to ask the shortlisted authors and translators any burning questions
In less than four weeks’ time, the winner of the International Booker Prize 2023 will be announced. The winning title chosen by this year’s panel will be revealed at a ceremony at Sky Garden in London on Tuesday, May 23, 2023.
But before we find out the winner, we’re going to be interviewing our shortlistees in a series of video Q&As – and we’d like you to supply the questions! If there’s something you’d love to know about how the authors wrote their nominated book or about the inspirations behind it, or about how the translators produced their English editions, please leave your questions in the comments below or email them to contactus@bookerprizefoundation.org. We’ll put a handful of your questions to each author and translator and publish the video interviews next month.
How closely did you work with the translator of your novel, and were there any difficult parts of the novel that were hard to translate for the English reader?