Short story collection All Around the World will be available for £1 in bid to widen access to quality fiction An initiative that aims to widen access to Booker prize-winning authors is set to launch this week, as research finds that more than a third of UK adults find it hard to read books through to the end. The Booker Prize Foundation is launching a short story collection entitled All Around the World, including works by the Booker prize winners Anne Enright, David Szalay and International Booker prize nominee Nadifa Mohamed. The collection was curated by another former winner, Roddy Doyle.

“Taiwan Travelogue” and its Booker Prize win highlight the nuances – and controversies – of contemporary culture in Taiwan.

Bulgarian author Rene Karabash discussed how her novel, which explores the historical Albanian custom of women becoming 'sworn virgins,' earned recognition as a contender for the International Booker Prize, bringing Bulgarian literature to international attention.

Ana Paula Maia, a Brazilian writer, was a finalist for the International Booker Prize with her novel "As on Earth as Below the Earth" but lost to Taiwanese author Yang Shuang-zi, whose work "Taiwan Travelogue" won the award.