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Last year, Barbara Kingsolver became the first person to win the award twice with her novel Demon Copperhead. One of 2024’s shortlisted authors, Kate Grenville, previously won the Prize (then ...
The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously called Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 & 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–2008) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, [4] [5] [6] annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English ...
The winner of both prizes will be announced on June 13.
Kairos is a 2021 novel by German author Jenny Erpenbeck.It received Germany's Uwe Johnson Prize in 2022. [1] The English translation, by Michael Hofmann, published in the U.S. by New Directions and in the U.K. by Granta Books, was shortlisted for the U.S. National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2023 [2] and won the International Booker Prize in 2024.
In May 2014, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction launched the #ThisBook campaign to find out which books, written by women, have had the biggest impact on readers. [21] Nineteen "inspirational women" were chosen to launch the campaign and then thousands of people from the "general public" submitted their ideas via Twitter . [ 22 ]
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The 2024 Booker Prize is a literary award worth £50,000 given for the best English-language novel published between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024 in either the United Kingdom or Ireland. The winner, Samantha Harvey for her sci-fi novel Orbital , was announced on 12 November 2024 at Old Billingsgate in London.
The winner of the 2024 Booker Prize will be announced on Tuesday 12 November, and will be awarded £50,000 in prize money. See the full shortlist below James by Percival Everett (Mantel)