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The 2024 shortlist for the Booker Prize

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:42:46 +0000

Discover the 2024 Booker Prize shortlist featuring six novels that explore profound themes of identity, belonging, and the human experience. This diverse selection of works spans global authors, offering a reflection on personal and societal challenges.

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The Booker Prize 2024 Longlist: A Diverse and Daring Selection

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 11:23:44 +0000

Discover the Booker Prize 2024 longlist, featuring a diverse and daring selection of thirteen exceptional books. Dive into reviews, explore themes, and meet the authors who are shaping the literary landscape this year.

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The Booker Prize 2023 Longlist Revealed

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 05:30:15 +0000

The Booker Prize Foundation has announced the 13-book longlist for the 2023 Booker Prize. The 2023 longlist features four debut novelists - Jonathan Escoffery, Siân Hughes, Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow and Chetna Maroo. It also includes three writers with previous Booker nominations, the most notable being Sebastian Barry who joins an elite group of authors with five or more Booker nods.

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The Promise by Damon Galgut

Tue, 19 Apr 2022 05:36:49 +0000

A generational narrative of disillusionment and lost hope in post-Apartheid South Africa, via the viewpoint of a white family unwilling to do the right thing, dragged down by their stubbornness in giving up the old ways. Damon Galgut's story appears to follow an intriguing and mysterious country's rich and impressive literary history. In every way, The Promise lives up to its name and more.

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Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 04:03:51 +0000

Thomas Keneally's Schindler's List (or Schindler's Ark) is an account of how the Nazi member and industrialist Oskar Schindler rescued over a thousand Jews from very probable death from at Auschwitz, by protecting them as workers at his enamel ware factory. Thomas Keneally won the Man Booker Prize for Schindler's List in 1982.

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The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Sat, 04 Jan 2020 10:45:35 +0000

Arundhati Roy brings us her masterful first novel The God of Small Things which won the Man Booker Prize in 1997. A powerful novel filled with luscious prose and a heart rending story, Roy reveals to her readers an India hanging onto to the traditions of the past with a slight glimpse of her future.

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Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 04:52:04 +0000

Life of Pi serves a great lesson – to have faith in the toughest of times. You may not be a religious person, but I recommend Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, he does an exceptional job of carrying the theme through to the reader.

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The Complete List of The Booker Prize Winner Books

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 12:05:22 +0000

The Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best novel originally written in English and published in the UK in the eligibility year of the prize, regardless of the nationality of its author. (The eligibility year currently runs from 1st October to 30th September)

Here are the Booker Prize winner books since the 1969, creation of the award:

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Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 11:46:50 +0000

Midnight's Children is a brilliant and complex novel. Told by an unreliable, at times annoying, but endlessly fascinating narrator Saleem Sinai, it is a story in which reality meets myth, in which dreams turn into facts, in which countries live tormented and tragic lives, resembling closely those of human beings that inhabit them.

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13 Books That Made To The Man Booker Prize Longlist – 2018

Mon, 13 Aug 2018 14:47:28 +0000

The Man Booker Prize longlist 2018 is announced. This year 13 books were chosen from the list of 171 submissions. In the 50 years’ history of The Man Booker Prize, this is the highest number of the titles put forward for the prize. The books were selected under the panel 5 judges. The chair of […]

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