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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.
It is the second-shortest book to win the prize, and covers the briefest timeframe of any book on the shortlist. The shortest winning novel in the history of the prize was 1979's Offshore by ...
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)
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 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 ...
Harvey had previously been nominated for the Booker Prize with the longlisting of her 2009 debut novel The Wilderness. [18] At 136 pages, Orbital was the second-shortest novel to be awarded the Booker Prize (with the shortest being Penelope Fitzgerald 's 1979 winning work Offshore ). [ 18 ]
Gaby Wood, the chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation, said that the judging panel “wished their longlist could have been twice as long”, after finding “joy, entertainment, emotion ...
The introduction of the International Prize to complement the Man Booker Prize, as the Booker Prize was then known, was announced in June 2004. [1] Sponsored by the Man Group , from 2005 until 2015 the award was given every two years to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English ...