Elizabeth Strout, Douglas Stuart, Marlon James and Rebecca Perry are among the authors who’ve been longlisted for this yr’s Booker Prize.
The 13 chosen books embrace novels set in Mexico City, a distant (*13*) island, an assissted suicide clinic in Zurich, Eighties Jamaica, and Massachussetts earlier than the 2024 US election.
Chair of the judges Mary Beard described the 13 novels as “dynamite”, including: “We are confident that our longlist of books has something for everyone.”
The longlist, known as the Booker Dozen, will likely be whittled right down to a shortlist on 22 September, earlier than the winner is introduced on 9 November.
The annual Booker Prize is the literary world’s most prestigious award, recognising long-form fiction by writers of any nationality, written in English and printed within the UK or Ireland.
The six shortlisted authors will obtain £2,500 every and a specifically certain version of their e book, whereas the eventual winner will obtain a trophy and £50,000 in prize cash.
High-profile authors who missed this yr’s longlist embrace Maggie O’Farrell, Ann Patchett, John Lanchester, Deborah Levy and Julian Barnes, who many predicted can be recognised for his last e book Departure(s).
