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The 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on 19 November 2020. [1] The Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 27 July, [2] and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 15 September. [3] The Prize was awarded to Douglas Stuart for his debut novel, Shuggie Bain, receiving £50,000. [4] Stuart is the second Scottish author to win the ...
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 Russian version of the Booker Prize was created in 1992 called the Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize, also known as the Russian Booker Prize. In 2007, Man Group plc established the Man Asian Literary Prize , an annual literary award given to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and published ...
Lucas Rijneveld (formerly Marieke Lucas Rijneveld; born 20 April 1991 in Nieuwendijk, the Netherlands) is a Dutch writer. [1] [2] Rijneveld won the 2020 International Booker Prize together with their translator Michele Hutchison for the debut novel The Discomfort of Evening. [3]
The Discomfort of Evening (Dutch: De avond is ongemak) is the debut novel by Dutch writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, published in 2018.On 26 August 2020, Rijneveld became the first Dutch writer to win the £50,000 International Booker Prize, shared jointly with the novel's English translator Michele Hutchison.
His work of autobiographic fiction was longlisted for multiple awards, including the 2020 Booker Prize.It was among 12 books. In the reading guide, The Booker Prizes described it as an "urgent and electrifying work of autofiction: the first-hand account of a young man who has lived a life of violent crime, and who expresses it boldly, accurately, and at times even beautifully."
Harvey's novels have been considered for many prizes, including the Man Booker Prize, the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Walter Scott Prize, and the Orange Prize. In 2010, she was named one of the 12 best new British novelists by The Culture Show.
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 ...