Rory MacLean is the author of 12 books including the ‘UK Top Ten’ Stalin’s Nose, a travelogue on eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Under the Dragon, Magic Bus and Berlin: Imagine a City, a portrait of the city across 500 years and the most extraordinary work of history I
Colombian-born Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is the author of What If Latin America Ruled the World? and Story of a Death Foretold, two award-winning accounts of Latin America today. He teaches Philosophy, Art and Law at Birkbeck College, University of London, and lectures around the world. Oscar Guardiola
George Szirtes was born in Hungary in 1948 and came to England as a refugee in 1956. He published his first book of poems in English, The Slant Door, in 1979, which won the Faber Memorial Prize. Over 40 years he has published many poems and collections, including Reel, awarded the 2004 T S Eliot [&h
Elif Shafak is an award-winning novelist, the most widely read female writer in Turkey and published in 47 languages. She is also a political commentator and an inspirational public speaker. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published 15 books, 10 of them novels, this year the outstan
The twelve winners of the 2017 European Union Prize for Literature are: Rudi Erebara (Albania), Ina Vultchanova (Bulgaria), Bianca Bellová (the Czech Republic), Kallia Papadaki (Greece), Halldóra K. Thoroddsen (Iceland), Osvalds Zebris (Latvia), Walid Nabhan (Malta), Aleksandar Bečanović (Monten
The Man Booker International Prize has revealed the shortlist of six books in contention for the 2017 prize, which celebrates the finest works of translated fiction from around the world. Each shortlisted author and translator receives £1,000. The £50,000 prize for the winning book will also be di
