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Aug 1, 2023 · Wondering which of the 13 Booker Prize 2023 longlisted titles to read first? We asked our judges to summarise each book – and say what they loved about them Publication date and time: Published August 1, 2023
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- 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.
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.
Mar 14, 2023 · The Booker Prize 2023 judging panel is chaired by Esi Edugyan and includes Adjoa Andoh, Mary Jean Chan, James Shapiro and Robert Webb. The longlist will be announced in July 2023. Crankstart, a charitable foundation, is the exclusive funder of the Booker Prizes.
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 — awarded annually to a work of longform fiction written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland — announced its 2023 longlist of finalists Tuesday. The...
Aug 1, 2023 · The winner will be announced on Sunday, November 26th. They will receive £50,000 and a trophy designed by the late Jan Pieńkowski. The winner can also expect a dramatic rise in global book...
