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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 following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work ...
A selection of 13 “timely and timeless” books that “navigate what it means to belong, to be displaced and to return” have been longlisted for the 2024 Booker prize.. Two British authors ...
Orbital is a 2023 novel by English writer Samantha Harvey that incorporates elements of science fiction, [3] [4] literary fiction, and philosophical drama, published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and by Grove Atlantic in the US. It follows six fictional astronauts over 24 hours on an orbiting space station.
Here, a guide to the six books on the 2024 Booker Prize shortlist: James: A Novel Percival Everett's James is a reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of an enslaved ...
The winner of the 2024 Booker Prize will be announced on Tuesday 12 November, and will be awarded £50,000 in prize money. ... American Fiction starring Jeffrey Wright in 2023. (Mantle/Jonathan ...
The 2023 winner was Paul Lynch's Prophet Song. The 2023 longlist was announced on 1 August. [2] The shortlist, announced on 21 September, [3] consisted of six books from six different authors, one British, one Canadian, two Irish, and two American. For all six authors, this marked the first time that they had appeared in a Booker Prize ...
This year’s Booker Prize shortlist will feature the biggest number of women authors in its 55-year history. Five women and one man will feature on the shortlist for the prestigious literary prize.