Jenny Erpenbeck has become the first German author to win the International Booker Prize. Her novel “Kairos,” translated from German by Michael Hofmann, has won this prestigious award. Set against the backdrop of 1986 Berlin, “Kairos” narrates a tumultuous love story between
The 2023 Booker prize has been awarded to Paul Lynch, an Irish author, for his fifth novel, Prophet Song. The book, which portrays an imagined Ireland that is descending into tyranny, has been described by the judging chair, Esi Edugyan, as a