Can people be formed by what they are called? That is the premise of Brazilian writer Leonardo Garzaro’s latest offering, which flows from a dispute…

Martina Devlin is an acclaimed Irish author and newspaper columnist with a series of books to her name, including full-length novels, collections of…

Writer and researcher Lina Meruane is widely regarded as one of the leading voices in contemporary Latin American literature. She is celebrated for…

Critically acclaimed author Samantha Harvey has won this year’s prestigious Booker Prize for her novel Orbital. Set on a craft inspired by the…

David Diop is a French academic-turned-novelist specialising in 18th-century French literature and francophone Africa. In 2021, he won the…

Andrey Kurkov is a Ukrainian writer known for novels chronicling the country’s politics, society, and culture, with plotlines that have a habit of…

One of Iceland’s best-known writers, Andri Snær Magnason, is one of the few who can claim to have won the country’s main literary prize in all three…

Jenny Erpenbeck won the International Booker Prize this year for her novel Kairos. The story recounts a love affair that descends into decay and…

The acclaimed Dutch author Jaap Robben was nominated for the international Booker Prize for Summer Brother and its depiction of how innocence is lost…

Salar Abdoh has chronicled Middle Eastern wars in books that have outlined the realities of the conflict that has gripped the region. The Tehran-born…