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- It will be livestreamed across all the Booker Prizes’ social platforms. The shortlisted authors each receive £2,500 and a specially bound edition of their book. The 2023 winner will be announced on Sunday, 26 November at an award ceremony held at Old Billingsgate.
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Aug 1, 2023 · We are delighted to reveal the Booker Prize2023 longlist. Huge congratulations to all the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen.
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Nov 27, 2023 · Earlier this year, Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov (translated by Angela Rodel) won the 2023 International Booker Prize. Gospodinov became the first Bulgarian author to take home the award.
- Fresh faces. The Booker Prize longlist is a mix of experienced and fresh voices. The latter includes four debut novelists among the 10 first-time nominees: Jonathan Escoffery for If I Survive You, Siân Hughes for Pearl, Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow for All the Little Bird-Hearts, and Chetna Maroo for Western Lane.
- Small and mighty. Chetna Maroo’s Western Lane is the shortest novel on this year’s longlist, at 176 pages, but it’s not the shortest-ever nominated for the prize.
- Mum’s the word. Mothers – both present and absent – feature prominently in a number of books on the longlist. Chetna Maroo’s Western Lane follows a family, and in particular, 11-year-old Gopi, after the mother dies.
- Water, water everywhere. Water, islands and the natural world link some of the books on the list, perhaps unsurprising at a time when discussions of climate change and its effects – from increasing temperatures to the effects of flooding and the loss of land and species – are never far from people’s minds.
The 2023 winner will be announced on Sunday, 26 November at an award ceremony held at Old Billingsgate. The winner receives £50,000 and a trophy designed by the late Jan Pieńkowski. In a recent public vote, the trophy was named ‘Iris’ in honour of the 1978 Booker winner Iris Murdoch.
Aug 1, 2023 · The Booker Prize longlist for 2023 was announced on Tuesday, featuring 10 authors who have never before been in the running for the award. The list of 13 entries for the £50,000 prize...
We are delighted to announce the #InternationalBooker2023 longlist, here’s what the judges had to say about the 13 titles.
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