Daniel Kehlmann bends history and illusion in Measuring the World and Tyll; now The Director enters the Booker conversation.
Marie NDiaye threads psychological unease through Three Strong Women and Ladivine; her latest, The Witch, is in the Booker race.
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ captures urban drift and fleeting intimacy in Taiwan Travelogue, now carrying her onto the international Booker stage.
Shida Bazyar writes from the fault lines of exile in The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran, a work that anchors her Booker recognition.
Rene Karabash fuses performance and prose in works like Ostaynitsa. She Who Remains pushes her onto the Booker list
Ana Paula Maia maps brutal worlds in Of Cattle and Men and The Liar's Room, probing violence, labour, and survival. Now On Earth As It Is Beneath eyes the 2026 Booker.