Booker Prize: 2024 nominees announced
31 July 2024 05:22
The International Booker Prize has announced 13 books that are up for one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world. The list of nominees is published on the website of the prize, reports "Komersant Ukrainian"
Thus, the jury determined the nominees from 156 works of fiction.
The long list includes three debut authors and six writers who have previously been nominated:
- Wandering Stars (“Wandering Stars”) by Tommy Orange;
- Wild Houses – Colin Barrett;
- Held captive by Anne Michaels;
- Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner;
- This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud;
- Playground by Richard Powers;
- Enlightenment, Sarah Perry;
- Orbital, Samantha Harvey;
- James, Percival Everett;
- The Safekeep, Yael van der Wooden;
- My Friends, Hisham Matar;
- Stone Yard Devotional – Charlotte Wood;
- Headshot by Rita Bulwinkel.
The award jury included artist and writer Edmund de Waal, novelist Sarah Collins, Guardian arts section editor Justin Jordan, writer and professor Cher Lee, and musician, composer and producer Nitin Sawhney. The shortlist of six books will be announced on 16 September at a ceremony at the Portico Rooms in Somerset House, London.
Each shortlisted author will receive £2,500 and a special edition of their book.
The winner of the 2024 Booker Prize will be announced on 12 November at a ceremony in London.
The winner will receive £50,000.
What is known about the Booker Prize
The Booker Prize (the official name of the prize is The Man Booker Prize) is the most prestigious literary award, which has been presented annually in the UK since 1969.
For 55 years, the Booker Prize has become the leading award in the field of literature. The prize is awarded to an author living in a Commonwealth country or Ireland for a novel written in English.
The very nomination for the Booker Prize is a testament to the undoubted merits of a book; it is not for nothing that it is called the book Oscar. The purpose of the prize is not only to name the best book of the year, but also to crown merit, to raise the status of the entrant in the eyes of the public and to increase sales of the book.
