Booker Prize 2023 – a short list of nominees
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As the organizers reported, none of the six authors had previously been shortlisted for the award. This year, the shortlist includes two debuts from Britain and Canada, as well as two Irish and two American authors.
“While filled with hope, humor, and humanity, the books address many of 2023’s most pressing issues: climate change, immigration, financial hardship, persecution of minorities, political extremism, and the erosion of personal liberties. They show characters searching for peace and belonging or mourning a lost love“, the jury notes.
Short list of nominees for the Booker Prize 2023:
- Study for Obedience (“Study of Obedience”), Sarah Bernstein;
- If I Survive You (“If I Survive You”), Jonathan Escoffery;
- This Other Eden (“This other paradise”), Paul Harding;
- Prophet Song (“The Prophet’s Song”), Paul Lynch;
- Western Lane (“Western Lane”), Chetna Maru;
- The Bee Sting, Paul Murray.
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About the Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards. It was awarded for the first time in 1969 – the award was then received by Percy Howard Newby for the essay “You will have to answer for this”. Initially, it was awarded to an author living in one of the countries of Great Britain for a novel written in English. However, since 2014, works by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in Britain, can apply for it.
In different years, its winners were such famous writers as Iris Murdoch, Salman Rushdie, John Coetzee, Kingsley Amis, Ian McEwan, etc. Five Booker Prize winners – William Golding, Nadine Gordimer, Vidyadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, John Coetzee and Ishiguro Kazuo – later won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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In 2022, the laureate was the Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka with the book “Seven Months of Maali Almeida”.
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