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Refracted: Thomas Cromwell — whose portrait was painted by Hans Holbein the Younger, himself a character in the trilogy by Hilary Mantel — served as chief minister to King Henry VIII. (Supplied)
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Review: ‘The Mirror & the Light’ or, the fall of Thomas Cromwell

Hilary Mantel’s final volume in the ‘Wolf Hall’ trilogy is a triumphant end to her depiction of the blacksmith’s boy who became the king of England’s right-hand man

The Comic Destiny by Ben Okri (Head of Zeus)

Good, evil and poetry in between the stories

The Cosmic Destiny is about good versus evil, love versus hate, freedom versus bondage, peace versus war and silence versus noise.​

An artist performs at the opening of the Jaipur Literature Festival in Jaipur, Rajasthan, to which thousands of book-lovers flock. (STR/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

Festival to bookend all festivals

Once a year Jaipur becomes a literary wonderland, packed with people mad about the written word

‘It’s just the way I write.’

Paul Beatty: Exploring race without limits

Paul Beatty touches on key issues but writes in such a way that he doesn’t have to speak for black people

A world of contradictions: Arundhati Roy’s new noveltakes an unflinching look at the complexities of life in India

Roy brings nationalists no joy

The writer-activist’s return to fiction remains as unsparing of India’s failings as her nonfiction

Paul Beatty has spent five years working on his Man Booker Prize-winning novel

Paul Beatty’s Man Booker achievement a first for the United States

Authors from the country only became eligible for the award in 2014.

Author Han Kang and translator Deborah Smith

South Korean author scoops Man Booker prize

Author and creative writing teacher Han Kang has won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel ‘The Vegetarian’.

New York Times described Marlon James’s novel on the 1976 assassination attempt on reggae singer Bob Marley as “epic

Novel on the attempted assassination of Bob Marley makes the Man Booker long list

Jamaican author Marlon James’s book, A Brief History of Seven Killings, is one of the 13 novels that made it onto the Man Booker Prize long list.

Nhlanhla Majozi on the cover of his Marvellous Light EP.
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All you need to know about the Man Booker International Prizewinner

Praised by Susan Sontag and WG Sebald, Krasznahorkai’s fans include a film director whose life’s mission is to bring his novels to the screen.

Booker Prize Foundation’s Literary Director

Booker prize chief Ion Trewin dies aged 71

Journalist turned publisher, whose achievements included editing Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark, had been battling cancer since last year.

Malawi Electoral Commission workers recount votes at the National Tally Centre in Blantyre on Saturday.

SA poet shortlisted for 6th Man Booker International Prize

Marlene Van Niekerk’s "two masterpieces" detail the aggravations of the political transition in South Africa – particularly for Afrikaners.

He’s the Man: Australia’s Richard Flanagan.

Man Booker prize in worthy hands

Australian Richard Flanagan triumphed with The Road to the Deep North, a "magnificent novel of love and war" at the Man Booker prize.

Novelist Eleanor Catton.

Man Booker prize longlist announced

Despite a change in rules that sparked fears Americans would dominate the prize, the final Man Booker longlist reflects a ‘vintage year’ of fiction.

Eleanor Catton wins the Man Booker prize for her novel,The Luminaries. (Reuters)

Young Catton wins Booker

Eleanor Catton (28) became the youngest writer to win the Man Booker prize when The Luminaries, took the 45th Booker at the awards dinner this week.

Novelist Eleanor Catton.

New Zealand’s Eleanor Catton wins Man Booker prize

The youngest winner in the award’s 45-year history, 28-year-old novelist Eleanor Catton has taken home the 2013 Man Booker prize.

Concerns raised as Booker prize moves beyond ‘Commonwealth’

As the Man Booker prize extends its call for entries to countries such as the US, some fear this move will degrade the prestigious contest.

Zimbabwe’s NoViolet Bulawayo shortlisted for Man Booker Prize

"We Need New Names" author NoViolet Bulawayo is one of the six authors selected for the 2013 Man Booker prize.

The ten things about The Man Booker Prize longlist

The Man Booker prize is awarded for the best original full-length novel, written in English, by a citizen of the Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe.

Julian Barnes wins Booker Prize for The Sense Of An Ending

English author Julian Barnes has finally won the Man Booker Prize for fiction, despite once dismissing the coveted award as "posh bingo".

Woman ducks Man Booker

Author and publisher Carmen Callil has withdrawn from the judging panel of the Man Booker International prize over its decision to honour Philip Roth.