London — Elizabeth Strout, Karen Joy Fowler and Leila Motley are one of the six American writers nominated for this year’s Booker Prize, which they announced in a news release on Tuesday.
Strout, the most famous writer on the 13-strong list, was nominated for the novel “Oh William!” About a mourning woman who helped her ex-husband investigate the family’s past. Karen Joy Fowler, short for “Booth,” is a portrait of a fictional family of clan around John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. And Leila Mottley, short for “nightcrawl,” is a bestseller about California’s desperate black teenagers becoming a sex trafficking circle.
Other Americans nominated are Hernan Diaz of “Trust”, Selby Win Schwartz of “After Saffo”, and Percival Everett of “The Trees”.
The Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, is awarded annually to authors of novels written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. Together with recent winners such as Margaret Atwood, Bernardin Evaristo and Douglas Stuart, he is well known for limiting his literary career and creating new stars.
Until 2014, the award was open only to British and Irish writers, but since that year it has included writers of all nationalities, and British literary groups have listed American writers on the booker list. I regularly suffer from superiority. Tuesday’s announcement could rejuvenate these concerns, but candidates also include three British and two Irish writers, NoViolet Bulawayo from Zimbabwe and Shehan Karunatilaka from Sri Lanka. ..
British writers on the list include Alan Garner, 87, who is well-known in the UK, with Booker being the oldest candidate in history. A pioneering writer of children’s fantasy novels In the 1960s and 1970s.
The nominated novels are very diverse in subject matter. Bulawayo has been nominated for “Glory,” an animal parable following the collapse of the dictatorship. Maddy Mortimer has been nominated for “Our Magnificent Body Map”. The narrator for this novel includes both her dying mother and the cancer that is killing her.
Neil MacGregor, a former director of the British Museum and chair of the jury this year, said in a news release announcing the candidates that the book includes “stories, parables, parables, fantasy, meditation, thrillers.” He stated and emphasized its diversity. Nevertheless, he states that two main themes are clear: “how an individual’s life is shaped and determined by a long historical process” and “the elusive nature of truth”. rice field.
“The extent to which we can trust the words we speak and write is the real subject of many of these books,” McGregor said.
Booker judges, including critic Shahida Bali and novelist Alan Mabankkou, reread all nominated books before being selected for the list of six titles to be announced on September 6. increase. You will receive a prize of £ 50,000, or about $ 60,000, which will be announced on October 17th at the ceremony in London.
The complete long list is:
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NoViolet Bulawayo, “Glory”
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Hernan Diaz, “Trust”
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Percival Everett, “Tree”
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Karen Joy Fowler, “Booth”
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Alan Garner, “Treacle Walker”
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Shehan Karunatilaka, “Seven Moons of Maali Almeida”
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Claire Keegan, “Small Things Like These”
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Graeme Macrae Burnet, “Case Study”
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Audrey Maggie, “Colony”
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Maddy Mortimer, “Map of Our Magnificent Body”
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Leila Motley, “Nightcrawl”
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Selby Win Schwartz, “After Suffo”
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Elizabeth Strout, “O William!”
