2024 Booker Prize
| 2024 Booker Prize | |
|---|---|
| Date | 12 November 2024 |
| Location | Old Billingsgate, London |
| Country | United Kingdom & Ireland |
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 is due to be announced on 12 November 2024 at Old Billingsgate in London.[1]
Of the thirteen authors on the 2024 longlist, announced on 30 July 2024, three (Colin Barrett, Rita Bullwinkel, Yael van der Wouden) were debut novelists and six (Percival Everett, Samantha Harvey, Rachel Kushner, Hisham Matar, Claire Messud, Richard Powers) had been nominated previously. The longlist also featured the first Dutch (Yael van der Wouden) and Native American (Tommy Orange) authors ever to be longlisted.[2][3][4] The shortlist of six finalists was announced on 16 September 2024, with five of the six books being by female authors, the highest number of women shortlisted in the 55-year history of the prize.[5]
Judging panel
[edit]- Edmund de Waal (chair)[6]
- Sara Collins
- Justine Jordan
- Nitin Sawhney
- Yiyun Li
Nominees
[edit]All nominees are novels.
Shortlist
[edit]| Author | Title | Country | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Percival Everett | James | USA | Mantle |
| Samantha Harvey | Orbital | United Kingdom | Jonathan Cape |
| Rachel Kushner | Creation Lake | USA | Jonathan Cape |
| Anne Michaels | Held | Canada | Bloomsbury |
| Yael van der Wouden | The Safekeep | Netherlands | Viking |
| Charlotte Wood | Stone Yard Devotional | Australia | Sceptre |
Longlist
[edit]| Author | Title | Country | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colin Barrett | Wild Houses | Ireland | Jonathan Cape |
| Rita Bullwinkel | Headshot | USA | Daunt Books Originals |
| Hisham Matar | My Friends | United Kingdom / Libya | Viking |
| Claire Messud | This Strange Eventful History | Canada / USA | Fleet |
| Tommy Orange | Wandering Stars | USA | Harvill Secker |
| Sarah Perry | Enlightenment | United Kingdom | Jonathan Cape |
| Richard Powers | Playground | USA | Hutchinson Heinemann |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Creamer, Ella (30 July 2024). "Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among 'cohort of global voices'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ Jessop, Vicky (30 July 2024). "Three British authors nominated for the Booker Prize longlist". Evening Standard. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ Rosseinsky, Katie (30 July 2024). "Booker Prize unveils 13 books on 'glorious' longlist of 'timeless and timely fiction'". The Independent. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ Marshall, Alex (30 July 2024). "Books by Rachel Kushner and Richard Powers Are Among Booker Prize Nominees". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ Creamer, Ella (16 September 2024). "Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner make the 2024 Booker prize shortlist". The Guardian.
- ^ "Meet the Booker Prize 2024 judges: 'The Booker is the Olympic gold medal of book awards' | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. 16 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.