2021 Booker Prize shortlist unveiled - Printable Version
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2021 Booker Prize shortlist unveiled -
Kyng - 09-14-2021
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58558396
Novels set in Sri Lanka and South Africa, Cardiff Bay and the outer cosmos are among those to have been nominated for this year's Booker Prize.
The chair of the judges said choosing the six "immersive" books had felt "transporting in a year when so many of us have been confined to home".
The list includes three American writers and, for the second year in a row, only one British author:
- Anuk Arudpragasam - A Passage North
- Damon Galgut - The Promise
- Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
- Nadifa Mohamed - The Fortune Men
- Richard Powers - Bewilderment
- Maggie Shipstead - Great Circle
If you want to read more about these books, there's more information in the full article. It does seem that there's quite a range of different settings here - in terms of both locations and time periods.
I must confess, I hadn't heard of some of these authors before - but, perhaps winning the prize would bring them greater fame?