Books by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Lucy Hughes-Hallett, the chair of the 2021 International Booker Prize judging panel, is a cultural historian and novelist. Her book on Gabriele d’Annunzio, The Pike, won the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, The Costa Biography of the Year Ward and the Political Book Awards Biography of the Year. The Pike was recently picked by The Sunday Times as ‘the biography of the decade’. She has also written the cultural histories Cleopatra and Heroes, and the novel Peculiar Ground. Her latest book is Fabulous, a collection of short stories set in modern Britain but based on ancient myth. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of the Historical Association.
The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Lucy Hughes-Hallett's biography of Gabriele D’Annunzio—the story of the Italian poet and aristocrat's "evolution from idealist Romantic to radical right-wing revolutionary"—offers an insight into the cultish elements of nationalism, the origins of extremism, and the dangers of huge personal charisma. It was declared the 'biography of the decade' by The Times, and won both the Costa biography prize and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction (now known as the Baillie Gifford Prize, the UK's most prestigious prize for nonfiction) in 2013.
Interviews with Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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At Night All Blood Is Black
by David Diop, translated by Anna Moschovakis -
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories
by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell -
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When We Cease to Understand the World
by Benjamin Labatut, translated by Adrian Nathan West -
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The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century
by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken -
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In Memory of Memory
by Maria Stepanova, by Sasha Dugdale -
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The War of the Poor
by Éric Vuillard, translated by Mark Polizzotti
The Best of World Literature: The 2021 International Booker Prize Shortlist, recommended by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The Best of World Literature: The 2021 International Booker Prize Shortlist, recommended by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Every year the International Booker Prize judges read dozens of novels from around the world, which are newly translated into English. Here Lucy Hughes-Hallett—award-winning author and chair of this year’s judging panel—talks us through the six books that made their 2021 shortlist of the best world literature.
