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The Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize celebrate the best English-language fiction. This account is no longer active.
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The Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize celebrate the best English-language fiction. Here’s how you can find us:. 📲 Search for @thebookerprizes on other social media. 💻 Visit and subscribe to our newsletter, for the latest news and features.
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Enter our competition to win a copy of Hot Milk by Deborah Levy, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag 📖.
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Deborah Levy interview: ‘Film has its own language, and the novelist has her own language’.
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Whether you’re new to Hot Milk or have read it and would like to explore it more deeply, here is our comprehensive guide, featuring insights from critics, our judges and the book’s author, as well as discussion points and suggestions for further reading ⤵️.
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Deborah Levy explores the strange and monstrous nature of motherhood, as it pushes the bonds of parent and child to breaking point, you can find an extract here ⤵️.
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Have you explored out Monthly Spotlight for June, Hot Milk by Deborah Levy? 🧵.
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We’re delighted to reveal the #InternationalBooker2026 judging panel for the 10th anniversary of the prize in its current form. Natasha Brown will act as chair and will be joined by @MarcusduSautoy, Sophie Hughes, @troyonyango and columnist @nilanjanaroy.
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A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?.
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Music is rarely incidental in a story – and often illuminating. We've picked out 10 Booker Prize-nominated novels that will appeal to book lovers and music lovers alike.
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In November 2025, @FiammettaRocco will step back from her role as Administrator of the International Booker Prize to become the prize’s Emeritus Director. Read more on our website:
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As the film adaptation of Hot Milk is soon to be released, Deborah Levy reflects on novels and films, fiction and non-fiction, stage and screen, and shares her reading, listening and watching recommendations ⤵️.
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Explore some of the best Booker-nominated novels featuring food – books that will surely satisfy your appetite to be both well-read and well-fed.
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A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?.
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Fifty years ago, the Booker Prize judges enraged the publishing world by including just two books on the shortlist – and declaring a strong distaste for most contemporary fiction.
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Huge congratulations to Booker Prize 2024 shortlistee Yael van der Wouden on her Women's Prize for Fiction win! 🎉.
We are overjoyed to share that the winner of the @womensprize for Fiction 2025 is Yael van der Wouden with her novel The Safekeep. Huge congratulations Yael!. We also want to congratulate @lizstroutauthor for her place on the Fiction shortlist with Tell Me Everything!
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Explore our reading guide for Hot Milk by Deborah Levy, featuring:. ☑️ Synopsis.☑️ About the author.☑️ Judges comments.☑️ What the critics said.☑️ Questions and discussion points.
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❣️ Heart Lamp love ❣️. 📸 Image credits: rupsareads, reading.passion_ruhi & whinyreader (all on IG)
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There’s great sadness at The Booker Prizes HQ over the death of Edmund White, reader and writer extraordinaire, who judged the Booker Prize in 1989. His influence on other novelists will continue, as will - in the minds of those who knew him - his joyously wicked sense of humour.
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Presenting our Monthly Spotlight pick for June: Hot Milk by Deborah Levy. Explore an extract, reading guide, competition and more ⤵️.
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As the #InternationalBooker2025 season comes to a close, we asked some of our judges about their desert island reads – the perfect spot for a well-deserved rest after all their hard work, perhaps? 🏝️
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