Penelope Lively

Dec 21, 2023 | thebookerprizes.substack.com | Georgi Gospodinov |Penelope Lively

2023 has been a bumper year for the Booker Prizes. In fact, we’ve crammed in so much that it’s impossible to fit our highlights into a single newsletter, so here’s part one of two. Let’s start with the main headlines: in May, Georgi Gospodinov became the first Bulgarian author to win the International Booker Prize, for his novel Time Shelter, translated into English by Angela Rodel.

Apr 24, 2023 | listening-books.org.uk | Penelope Lively |Shveta Thakrar |Katherine Marsh |Aiden Thomas

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