Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ is the author of the novels Stay with Me and A Spell of Good Things, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2023. Her novels have been translated into over 20 languages. Stay with Me was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Wellcome Book Prize and the Kwani? Manuscript Project, and won the Prix Les Afriques and the 9mobile Prize for Literature. A Spell of Good Things was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Encore Award after being longlisted for the Booker.
Interviews with Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
The Best Novels of 2025: The Booker Prize Shortlist, recommended by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
We spoke to Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, the novelist and judge on this year’s Booker Prize panel, about their 2025 shortlist: a varied line-up of six novels, from a work of historical fiction set in a frozen rural England to an experimental ‘Rorschach blot’ of a novel told in two conflicting parts.
