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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 ...
January 22 – Elke Erb, German author and poet, 85 [21] January 24 – N. Scott Momaday, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner in 1969. [22] March 22 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French children's book writer and illustrator, 98 [23] April 2 – John Barth, American fiction writer, 93 [24]
The author has won several awards in the past, including the Orange Prize for Fiction, and her books have been translated into more than 50 languages. The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (Viking)
He also won last year’s Science Fiction Goodreads Choice Award for his novel "In the Lives of Puppets." Read more about it on Goodreads , where it already has a 4.25-star rating among 10,000 ...
James, which won a National Book Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is a sweeping story centering on Jim, the enslaved sidekick in Mark Twain’s classic adventure tale. Everett sends ...
A five-person panel consisting of authors, publishers and journalists, as well as politicians, actors, artists and musicians, [4] is appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation each year to choose the winning book. [5] [6] As of 2024, the chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation is Gaby Wood. [7] [8] [9]
A number of South Korean writers celebrated the news, among them Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko, who commented: "Han Kang is a brilliant novelist who reflects our modern condition with courage, imagination, and intelligence. She is most worthy of this global recognition." [15] Science fiction author Kim Bo-young said, "We cheer and rejoice. I ...