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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

Booker Prize Foundation

Israeli-Dutch writer Yael van der Wouden speaks at a We Are Freyda talk in the Netherlands, November 17, 2021. (YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 17, 2024, 9:04 am
Dutch-Israeli author Yael van der Wouden shortlisted for Booker Prize
Novelist inspired by her frustration as a Jewish woman growing up in the Netherlands feeling like her culture has disappeared
By ToI Staff and AFP
Author David Grossman speaks at the Meretz party's central committee meeting in Tel Aviv, on July 28, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
March 10, 2022, 8:18 pm
Israeli novelist David Grossman in the running for International Booker Prize
Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk and her novel ‘The Books of Jacob,’ which tells the story of 18th-century Jewish mystical cult leader Jacob Frank, also on prize longlist
By AP
South African author Damon Galgut poses with his book 'The Promise' on October 31, 2021. (Tolga Akmen / AFP)
November 5, 2021, 8:10 am
Novel about South African Jewish mother picks up prestigious Booker Prize
‘The Promise’ by Damon Galgut spans 40 years of recent South African history
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Author David Grossman (left), shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for his novel 'A Horse Walked Into a Bar,' interviewed by Benjamin Balint in an event hosted by the Times of Israel in Jerusalem, April 2, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
April 20, 2017, 10:36 pm
Amos Oz and David Grossman shortlisted for Man Booker prize
The two Israeli authors are contending with four other writers for the prestigious international literary award
By Jessica Steinberg
Palestinian writer Rabai al-Madhoun won a major award in April 2016 for his novel 'Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and Nakba' (Courtesy YouTube screen grab)
April 28, 2016, 7:43 pm
Palestinian writer from Gaza wins ‘Arabic Booker’
Rabai al-Madhoun’s novel melds stories about the Nakba, the Holocaust and the Palestinian ‘right of return’
By Jessica Steinberg
British author Howard Jacobson rewrites 'The Merchant of Venice' in a wickedly funny novel, 'Shylock Is My Name.' (courtesy)
February 3, 2016, 12:44 pm
How would Shylock have fared in 21st century Britain?
Howard Jacobson finds a different pound of flesh in a modern retelling of Shakespeare’s classic ‘The Merchant of Venice’
By Jenni Frazer
Palestinian novelist Atef Abu Saif in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 1, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Nasser Nasser)
March 11, 2015, 12:49 pm
Gaza Strip novelist writes of lives framed by wars
Atef Abu Saif, who grew up in the Jabaliya refugee camp, saw first-hand the coastal enclave’s changing fortunes
By Mohammed Daraghmeh
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