Booker Prize 2021: Shortlist announced
3 years, 3 months ago

Booker Prize 2021: Shortlist announced

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Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Whether it’s David Diop’s International Booker Prize-winning novel At Night All Blood Is Black or this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction crowned title Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. But, if your reading list is in need of a real overhaul, then you’ll be glad to learn that the Booker Prize for Fiction shortlist has just been announced and this year’s gongs have highlighted a dazzling array of literature. This year’s judges include Maya Jasanoff, Horatia Harrod, Natascha McElhone, Chigozie Obioma, and Archbishop Rowan Williams. The news comes after last year’s winner, Douglas Stuart, took the crown for his novel Shuggie Bain.

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Sarah Jessica Parker joins judging panel for 2025 Booker Prize
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Sarah Jessica Parker joins judging panel for 2025 Booker Prize

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As the Prize opens for submissions from publishers on Tuesday, the panel will also feature …

Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey’s Orbital shows only a true talent can deliver a great short book
1 month ago

Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey’s Orbital shows only a true talent can deliver a great short book

The Independent  

When Orbital, a tale of some 136 pages, by Samantha Harvey, the 2024 Booker Prize winner, landed on my desk, my first thought was for an old friend, an acclaimed English writer, now in the twilight of his career. How can you claim to be the premier English fiction prize if you exclude new writing from the most dynamic expression …

Booker Prize 2024: British Writer Samantha Harvey Wins For Space Novel ‘Orbital’
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Booker Prize 2024: British Writer Samantha Harvey Wins For Space Novel ‘Orbital’

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 13, 2024 19:58 IST - 4 MINS READ British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on November 12 with Orbital, a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the beauty and fragility of Earth. ‘Hopeful, timely, and timeless’ Writer and artist Edmund de Waal, who chaired the five-member judging panel, …

The inconvenient truth about this year’s Booker Prize winner
1 month, 3 weeks ago

The inconvenient truth about this year’s Booker Prize winner

The Independent  

The Booker Prize is billed as “the world’s most significant award for a single work of fiction”. What is hard to believe, though, is that the Booker judges would have risked the fallout from trumpeting a shortlist dominated by “the highest number of women in the prize’s 55-year history” and, being fully aware that the prize has gone only six …

Booker Prize to be announced today, here’s a short story of 6 shortlisted contenders
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Booker Prize to be announced today, here’s a short story of 6 shortlisted contenders

Firstpost  

The UK Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, is set to announce its 2024 winner tonight. This year, the competition has been fierce, with a diverse slate of six outstanding books shortlisted The Booker Prize is the world’s one of the most prestigious literary awards for a single work of fiction in English and …

Booker Prize shortlist 2024: Book experts on the surprises, snubs and likely winner of the prestigious $98,000 literary award
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Booker Prize shortlist 2024: Book experts on the surprises, snubs and likely winner of the prestigious $98,000 literary award

ABC  

The Booker Prize — described by some as the Olympic Games of literature — is one of the world's most prestigious writing prizes. Booker Prize 2024 shortlist James by Percival Everett Orbital by Samantha Harvey Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner Held by Anne Michaels The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood For the first …

A Diverse and Intriguing Lineup of Shortlisted Books for the 2024 Booker Prize
2 months ago

A Diverse and Intriguing Lineup of Shortlisted Books for the 2024 Booker Prize

The Hindu  

The Booker Prize 2024 shortlist features a diverse range of stories that explore themes of belonging, displacement, and return. The list includes five women and one man, the first Dutch and Australian authors to be nominated in 10 years, and a novel that tackles the aftermath of World War II in the Netherlands.

Booker Prize 2024: Women dominate shortlist as all six authors tackle ‘fault lines of our times’
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Booker Prize 2024: Women dominate shortlist as all six authors tackle ‘fault lines of our times’

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Booker Prize Shortlist was …

Here's The Longlist For This Year's Booker Prize
5 months, 1 week ago

Here's The Longlist For This Year's Booker Prize

Deccan Chronicle  

The nominees for this year’s class of Booker Prize were announced on Tuesday. The Prestigious award is conferred every year for the best fiction in English language published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland. American writers including Pulitzer prize winner Hisham Matar, Rachel Kushner, Percival Everett and Tommy Orange are among the 13 semifinalists. The Booker Prize was founded in …

Booker Prize Fiction longlist 2024: U.S. authors make up almost half the 13 semifinalists
5 months, 1 week ago

Booker Prize Fiction longlist 2024: U.S. authors make up almost half the 13 semifinalists

The Hindu  

Six American writers including Rachel Kushner, Percival Everett and Tommy Orange are among 13 semifinalists announced Tuesday for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction. Pulitzer Prize-winning Cheyenne and Arapaho author Orange is the first Native American Booker semifinalist for the 50,000 pound award with his centuries-spanning saga “Wandering Stars.” Everett is nominated for “James,” which reimagines Mark Twain's “Huckleberry Finn” …

Read our reviews of the International Booker Prize 2024 shortlisted titles
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Read our reviews of the International Booker Prize 2024 shortlisted titles

The Hindu  

The winner of the International Booker Prize 2024 will be announced late on May 21. The ceremony, which will be livestreamed on The Booker Prizes’ channels, will be held for the first time at London’s Tate Modern. This year’s shortlist of six books was selected from a longlist of 13 titles by a panel that included writer and broadcaster Eleanor …

The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 shortlist has been announced
8 months, 2 weeks ago

The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 shortlist has been announced

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The shortlist is as follows: • Anne Enright, The Wren, The Wren • VV Ganeshananthan, …

International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist revealed, check full list
8 months, 4 weeks ago

International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist revealed, check full list

India TV News  

The International Booker Prize, celebrating the best-translated fiction from around the world, has revealed its 2024 shortlist. South Korea: Veteran author Hwang Sok-yong's "Mater 2-10," translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae, celebrates Korean resilience in the face of adversity. Brazil: Itamar Vieira Junior's debut novel, "Crooked Plow," translated by Johnny Lorenz, sheds light on the significance of land …

Irish writer Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize with dystopian novel ‘Prophet Song’
1 year, 1 month ago

Irish writer Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize with dystopian novel ‘Prophet Song’

Associated Press  

LONDON — Irish writer Paul Lynch won the Booker Prize for fiction on Sunday with what judges called a “soul-shattering” novel about a woman’s struggle to protect her family as Ireland collapses into totalitarianism and war. Canadian writer Esi Edugyan, who chaired the judging panel, said the book is “a triumph of emotional storytelling, bracing and brave” in which Lynch …

Booker Prize 2023 shortlist addresses climate change, persecution and political extremism
1 year, 3 months ago

Booker Prize 2023 shortlist addresses climate change, persecution and political extremism

ABC  

The Booker Prize shortlist for 2023 has been announced, and contains a few surprises. Listen: ABC RN's The Book Show Photo shows The Book Show While none of the authors had previously been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, they are not without substantial literary accolades. Harding won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his first novel, Tinkers, while Lynch's …

Booker Prize semifinalists include 4 Irish writers, 4 debut novelists
1 year, 5 months ago

Booker Prize semifinalists include 4 Irish writers, 4 debut novelists

Associated Press  

LONDON — Author Sebastian Barry, who has received four previous nominations for the Booker Prize and twice been shortlisted for it, was one of four Irish writers Tuesday to make the long list of semifinalists for the prestigious award. Barry is up this year for his novel “Old God’s Time,” about a retired police detective who gets dragged back into …

Shakespeare story wins nonfiction 'winner of winners' prize
1 year, 8 months ago

Shakespeare story wins nonfiction 'winner of winners' prize

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An engrossing account of a …

The best books of 2022 for your summer reading list
2 years ago

The best books of 2022 for your summer reading list

ABC  

Congratulations — you made it to the end of yet another stranger-than-fiction year. This list of 2022 favourites from ABC's book experts — ranging from hot new Australian fiction to Booker Prize nominees, lesser-known gems and snackable morsels — has got you covered for summer. CN The Strangers by Katherena Vermette University of Queensland Press Vermette won the Canadian Governor …

One of these six novels is set to be crowned winner of Booker Prize 2022
2 years, 2 months ago

One of these six novels is set to be crowned winner of Booker Prize 2022

Live Mint  

The winner of the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction will be chosen Monday from among six novels that explore the impact of personal and historical traumas on individual lives. Two books by American authors are on the shortlist for the 50,000 pound award: Elizabeth Strout’s symphony of everyday lives “Oh William!” and Percival Everett’s novel about racism and police violence, …

Booker Prize 2022 | The six shortlists: NoViolet Bulawayo, Claire Keegan, Alan Garner, Shehan Karunatilaka, Percival Everett, and Elizabeth Strout
2 years, 2 months ago

Booker Prize 2022 | The six shortlists: NoViolet Bulawayo, Claire Keegan, Alan Garner, Shehan Karunatilaka, Percival Everett, and Elizabeth Strout

The Hindu  

Watch | Booker Prize 2022 contenders From a longlist of 13 books, six novels made it to the 2022 Booker Prize shortlist. And it includes the shortest book and oldest author ever to be nominated, besides “writers from five countries and a wealth of fabulous fiction”, as the Booker website states. “I thought a ghost story would be an interesting …

Booker Prize 2022: Shortlist includes oldest finalist ever
2 years, 4 months ago

Booker Prize 2022: Shortlist includes oldest finalist ever

Live Mint  

Britain's Booker Prize for fiction unveiled its final contenders for this year's award Tuesday, featuring the oldest author and the shortest book ever to make the prestigious six-strong literary shortlist. Octogenarian Englishman Alan Garner, who will turn 88 when the winner is announced on October 17, was shortlisted for "Treacle Walker", which is the shortest finalist novel by word count. …

U.S. authors Elizabeth Strout, Percival Everett among Booker Prize finalists
2 years, 4 months ago

U.S. authors Elizabeth Strout, Percival Everett among Booker Prize finalists

The Hindu  

American authors Elizabeth Strout and Percival Everett are up against writers from Britain, Ireland, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka as finalists for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction. Ms. Strout’s symphony of everyday lives “Oh William!” and Mr. Everett’s powerful novel about racism and police violence, “The Trees,” are on a shortlist announced on September 6 for the 50,000 pound prize. …

Booker Prize 2022 shortlist: All the nominees
2 years, 4 months ago

Booker Prize 2022 shortlist: All the nominees

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy This year’s Booker Prize shortlist, described by the chair …

Booker Prize 2022 longlist announced: Read the novels now
2 years, 5 months ago

Booker Prize 2022 longlist announced: Read the novels now

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Literary awards provide us with a means to discover …

Booker Prize 2022 longlist dominated by American authors
2 years, 5 months ago

Booker Prize 2022 longlist dominated by American authors

The Hindu  

The 2022 Booker Prize longlist of 13 books, referred to as the “Booker dozen” and released in London on July 26, is dominated by American authors, including previously longlisted writer Elizabeth Strout. The Booker 13 is completed by Irish writers Audrey Magee for the book ‘The Colony’ and Claire Keegan for ‘Small Things Like These’ and Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo …

International Booker Prize 2022: Read Geetanjali Shree’s winning novel Tomb of Sand, plus previous top titles
2 years, 7 months ago

International Booker Prize 2022: Read Geetanjali Shree’s winning novel Tomb of Sand, plus previous top titles

The Independent  

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British Book Awards 2022: Marcus Rashford wins the top prize, plus the other winners
2 years, 7 months ago

British Book Awards 2022: Marcus Rashford wins the top prize, plus the other winners

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The British Book Awards, also known as the Nibbies, …

Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022 shortlist is a diverse range of stories
2 years, 8 months ago

Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022 shortlist is a diverse range of stories

The Independent  

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The International Booker Prize shortlist is in and dominated by women authors
2 years, 9 months ago

The International Booker Prize shortlist is in and dominated by women authors

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Polish Nobel winner vying for International Booker Prize
2 years, 9 months ago

Polish Nobel winner vying for International Booker Prize

Associated Press  

LONDON — Polish Nobel literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk and Israeli novelist David Grossman are both in the running, for a second time, for the International Booker Prize for fiction in English translation. Both are previous winners: Grossman in 2017 for “A Horse Walks into a Bar” and Tokarczuk for “Flights” in 2018, the same year she was awarded the Nobel …

International Booker Prize longlist 2022 revealed
2 years, 9 months ago

International Booker Prize longlist 2022 revealed

The Independent  

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Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022: Longlist announced
2 years, 10 months ago

Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022: Longlist announced

The Independent  

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Costa Book Awards 2021: From ‘Unsettled Ground’ to ‘Open Water’
3 years ago

Costa Book Awards 2021: From ‘Unsettled Ground’ to ‘Open Water’

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Booker Prize 2021: Damon Galgut wins top honours for ‘The Promise’
3 years, 2 months ago

Booker Prize 2021: Damon Galgut wins top honours for ‘The Promise’

The Hindu  

South African author Damon Galgut has won the £50,000 Booker Prize for The Promise, beating out a quality field that included one other previously shortlisted author, Richard Powers. 'The legacies of the past' During the ceremony at BBC’s Radio Theatre in London, the chair of the Booker Prize judges, historian Maya Jasanoff, said all six shortlisted novels "share a sense …

Booker Prize 2021: Read this year’s winning novel by Damon Galgut
3 years, 2 months ago

Booker Prize 2021: Read this year’s winning novel by Damon Galgut

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Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Damon Galgut has been announced as this year’s winner …

Booker Prize 2021: Longlist announced
3 years, 5 months ago

Booker Prize 2021: Longlist announced

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Whether it’s David Dop’s International Booker Prize-winning novel At Night All Blood Is …

Booker Prize 2020: The longlist books to add to your reading pile
3 years, 7 months ago

Booker Prize 2020: The longlist books to add to your reading pile

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Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. 'The New Wilderness' by Diane Cook, published by Oneworld Publications: £11.61, Amazon open …

Booker Prize 2020: Read this year’s winning novel and the previous top titles
3 years, 7 months ago

Booker Prize 2020: Read this year’s winning novel and the previous top titles

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Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Douglas Stuart has been crowned this year’s winner of …

British Book Awards 2021: Nibbies winners announced
3 years, 7 months ago

British Book Awards 2021: Nibbies winners announced

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International Booker Prize 2021: Argentina's Mariana Enriquez, France's Eric Vuillard among shortlisted authors
3 years, 8 months ago

International Booker Prize 2021: Argentina's Mariana Enriquez, France's Eric Vuillard among shortlisted authors

Firstpost  

British author Lucy Hughes-Hallett, who is chairing the panel of judges, said the list showed that some of the most exciting new writing is going on “in the borderlands” between fiction and other genres, such as history and memoir. London: Books from Europe and Latin America that blur the boundaries of fiction, history and memoir are the final six contenders …

International Booker Prize 2021: Shortlist announced
3 years, 8 months ago

International Booker Prize 2021: Shortlist announced

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British Book Awards 2021 shortlist announced: Here’s what to read
3 years, 9 months ago

British Book Awards 2021 shortlist announced: Here’s what to read

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Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021: Longlist announced
3 years, 9 months ago

Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021: Longlist announced

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Booker Prize 2020: The shortlisted novels you need to read
3 years, 11 months ago

Booker Prize 2020: The shortlisted novels you need to read

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Scottish writer Douglas Stuart's 'Shuggie Bain' wins 2020 Booker Prize
4 years, 1 month ago

Scottish writer Douglas Stuart's 'Shuggie Bain' wins 2020 Booker Prize

India TV News  

Scottish writer Douglas Stuart's "Shuggie Bain" was on Thursday evening named the winner of the 50,000 pounds 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction, at the heart of which are the memories he carries of his mother's struggle with drink, with men and with her modest dreams, at the culmination of a star-studded "ceremony without walls" at London's Roundhouse. "'Shuggie Bain' is …

Booker Prize 2020: Douglas Stuart wins coveted award for Shuggie Bain, debut novel set in 1980s Glasgow – Firstpost
4 years, 1 month ago

Booker Prize 2020: Douglas Stuart wins coveted award for Shuggie Bain, debut novel set in 1980s Glasgow – Firstpost

Firstpost  

Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain was chosen from a shortlist of six books, by a jury comprising Lee Child, Sameer Rahim, Emily Wilson, and Lemn Sissay, with Margaret Busby as chair. The Booker Prize Foundation, on 19 November, announced that the Booker Prize 2020 has been awarded to Douglas Stuart for his debut novel Shuggie Bain. Shuggie Bain was chosen from …

Booker Prize 2020: A guide to the shortlisted authors, from Douglas Stuart to Avni Doshi
4 years, 1 month ago

Booker Prize 2020: A guide to the shortlisted authors, from Douglas Stuart to Avni Doshi

The Independent  

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The controversial shortlist for this year's Man Booker prize
4 years, 3 months ago

The controversial shortlist for this year's Man Booker prize

Daily Mail  

The controversial shortlist for the prestigious 2020 Booker prize was announced earlier this week. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart has odds of 4/1 to win the Man Booker prize SHUGGIE BAIN - ODDS: 4/1 by Douglas Stuart The plot The story, which is partly autobiographical, follows young, effeminate, bullied Shuggie Bain growing up in jobless, macho 1980s Scotland with his …

Zimbabwean writer, Americans on diverse Booker Prize list
4 years, 3 months ago

Zimbabwean writer, Americans on diverse Booker Prize list

Associated Press  

LONDON — A Zimbabwean writer who was arrested during anti-government protests is among six finalists announced Tuesday on a diverse list of contenders for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction. Reform Our Institutions.” The Booker list this year is dominated by books from American or U.S.-based authors, including “The Shadow King” by Ethiopia-born Maaza Mengiste, Diane Cook’s dystopian tale “The …

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