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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 ...
The story of two contrasting characters in a remote, rural hospital in post-apartheid South Africa, The Good Doctor was enthusiastically received by critics. [15] It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003 [16] and also won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book: Africa (2003). [2]
The Good Doctor is the fifth novel of South African author Damon Galgut. [1] [2] It was published in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Books and by Grove Press in the United States on 9 January 2004. [3] [4] The Good Doctor focuses on one doctor's struggle with his conscience in a rural hospital in post-apartheid South Africa.
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)
The Promise was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize. [17] Galgut is the third writer from South Africa to win the Booker, following Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee, who has won twice. Galgut was previously shortlisted twice for the Prize: first in 2003 for The Good Doctor and again in 2010 for In a Strange Room. [18]
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The Booker Prize 2022 longlist features the oldest and youngest authors ever to be nominated for the prestigious literary award. British author Alan Garner, who will celebrate his 88th birthday on ...
Doctor Sleep: Nominated Joyland: Nominated 2015 Revival: Nominated 2019 Best Horror Novel: The Outsider: Nominated 2020 The Institute: Nominated 2021 Best Collection If It Bleeds: Nominated Los Angeles Times Book Prize: 2011 Mystery / Thriller 11/22/63: Won [69] Modern Library 100 Best Novels: 1998 Reader's List The Stand: 29th [citation needed ...