LONDON, Sept 23 ― The shortlist for the 2023 Booker Prize was announced in London on Thursday, with the final six books offering “terrors, pleasures, joys and...
LONDON, Sept 23 ― The shortlist for the 2023 Booker Prize was announced in London on Thursday, with the final six books offering “terrors, pleasures, joys and consolations.”
Twice-shortlisted novelist Esi Edugyan, who chairs the judging panel, said the chosen novels “offer a full range of human experience” that “transport us not just outside reality but outside the common language of the everyday.” The prestigious literary prize is open to works of fiction by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK or Ireland between October 1, 2022 and September 30, 2023.The six novels were drawn from 158 works, which were then reduced to a 13-strong longlist., which looks at the role of fate in the travails of one family in a tragicomic saga.about grief and sisterhood, which follows the story of a teenage girl for whom squash is life, also makes the cut.
The novels were selected by a five-person panel, which included actor and writer Adjoa Andoh, poet Mary Jean Chan, professor of English at Columbia University James Shapiro and actor and comedian Robert Webb.by US writer Jonathan Escoffery, which follows a Jamaican family and their chaotic new life in Miami.― inspired by historical events ― tells the story of Apple Island, an enclave off the US coast where society's misfits flock and build a new home.by Sarah Bernstein.
tells the story of a war photographer who wakes up dead in what seems to be a cosmic visa office. ― ETX Studio
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