From the Booker Prize website:
“The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. It is a prize that transforms the winner’s career.
The winner receives £50,000 as well as the £2,500 awarded to each of the six shortlisted authors. Both the winner and the shortlisted authors are guaranteed a global readership plus a dramatic increase in book sales.”
Click on the titles and author names to learn more about both.
The winner is highlighted in red.
The 2020 shortlist is:
- The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
- This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
- The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
- Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
- Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Congratulations to all the finalists and the winner!
I really appreciate seeing such diversity among the finalists!
Isn’t it wonderful, Mari? The two Booker Prizes (International as well as this one) seem to be discerning in the choice of judges, as well as recognizing the diversity of authors/talent out there.