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The Booker Prize

1kidzdoc
Modifié : Juil 23, 2019, 11:22 pm

This year's Booker Prize longlist was announced at midnight BST (1900 EST):

Margaret Atwood (Canada), The Testaments
Kevin Barry (Ireland), Night Boat to Tangier
Oyinkan Braithwaite (UK/Nigeria), My Sister, The Serial Killer
Lucy Ellmann (USA/UK), Ducks, Newburyport
Bernardine Evaristo (UK), Girl, Woman, Other
John Lanchester (UK), The Wall
Deborah Levy (UK), The Man Who Saw Everything
Valeria Luiselli (Mexico/Italy), Lost Children Archive
Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria), An Orchestra of Minorities
Max Porter (UK), Lanny
Salman Rushdie (UK/India), Quichotte
Elif Shafak (UK/Turkey), 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Jeanette Winterson (UK), Frankissstein

I've only read Lanny from this list, which was very good, and I don't yet own any of the others.

I've created a thread in the Booker Prize group to discuss this year's longlist (https://www.librarything.com/topic/309391), and I'll make threads for the longlisted books no later than tomorrow.

2bergs47
Oct 15, 2019, 5:45 am

Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo have both won this year’s Booker Prize, it was announced at a ceremony on Monday 14 October

Evaristo, who won for her novel “Girl, Woman, Other,” is the first black woman to win the Booker Prize. “I hope that honor doesn’t last too long,” she said in her acceptance speech. Atwood, who won in 2000 for “The Blind Assassin,” was considered a front-runner this year for “The Testaments,” the sequel to her 1985 dystopian classic, “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

3kidzdoc
Sep 15, 2020, 5:26 pm

This is the 2020 Booker Prize longlist:

Apeirogon, Colum McCann (Ireland/USA)
Burnt Sugar, Avni Doshi (USA)
How Much of These Hills Is Gold, C Pam Zhang (USA)
Love and Other Thought Experiments, Sophie Ward (UK)
The Mirror & The Light, Hilary Mantel (UK)
This Mournable Body, Tsitisi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe)
The New Wilderness, Diane Cook (USA)
Real Life, Brandon Taylor (USA)
Redhead by the Side of the Road, Anne Tyler (USA)
The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia/USA)
Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart (Scotland/USA)
Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid (USA)
Who They Was, Gabriel Krauze (UK)

And here's the shortlist, which was announced earlier today:

Burnt Sugar, Avni Doshi (USA)
This Mournable Body, Tsitisi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe)
The New Wilderness, Diane Cook (USA)
Real Life, Brandon Taylor (USA)
The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia/USA)
Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart (Scotland/USA)

This year's winner will be announced on 27 October.

4kidzdoc
Nov 20, 2020, 5:52 am

Congratulations to Douglas Stuart, whose novel Shuggie Bain won this year's Booker Prize yesterday evening:

1981. Glasgow. The city is dying. Poverty is on the rise. People watch the lives they had hoped for disappear from view. Agnes Bain had always expected more. She dreamed of greater things: a house with its own front door, a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect – but false – teeth). When her philandering husband leaves, she and her three children find themselves trapped in a mining town decimated by Thatcherism. As Agnes increasingly turns to alcohol for comfort, her children try their best to save her. Yet one by one they have to abandon her in order to save themselves.

It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. But Shuggie has problems of his own: despite all his efforts to pass as a ‘normal boy’, everyone has decided that Shuggie is ‘no right’. Agnes wants to support and protect her son, but her addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her, including her beloved Shuggie.

Laying bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride, Shuggie Bain is a blistering and heartbreaking debut, and an exploration of the unsinkable love that only children can have for their damaged parents.


I've just started reading it, and it's very good so far.

5kidzdoc
Juil 26, 2021, 9:00 pm



This year's longlist was announced just after midnight in London (7 am East Coast Time in the US):

A Passage North, Anuk Arudpragasam (Granta Books, Granta Publications)
Second Place, Rachel Cusk, (Faber)
The Promise, Damon Galgut, (Chatto & Windus, Vintage, PRH)
The Sweetness of Water, Nathan Harris (Tinder Press, Headline, Hachette Book Group)
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber)
An Island, Karen Jennings (Holland House Books)
A Town Called Solace, Mary Lawson (Chatto & Windus, Vintage, PRH)
No One is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)
The Fortune Men, Nadifa Mohamed (Viking, Penguin General, PRH)
Bewilderment, Richard Powers (Hutchinson Heinemann, PRH)
China Room, Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker, Vintage, PRH)
Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead (Doubleday, Transworld Publishers, PRH)
Light Perpetual, Francis Spufford (Faber)

The Guardian: Booker prize reveals globe-spanning longlist of ‘engrossing stories’

6Yells
Juil 26, 2021, 9:16 pm

Well look at that... I've actually read three! That never happens. I enjoyed Klara and the Sun & A Town Called Solace (loved Mary Lawson) and was blown away by No One is Talking About This.

7kidzdoc
Juil 26, 2021, 10:38 pm

>6 Yells: Well done, Danielle! I haven't read any of the Booker Dozen yet, but I'll get started on the longlist by next week.

8kidzdoc
Nov 3, 2021, 4:07 pm

The Promise by Damon Galgut is the winner of this year's Booker Prize. This was one of my top choices, so I'm pleased with this selection!

The Guardian: Damon Galgut wins Booker prize with ‘spectacular’ novel The Promise

9kidzdoc
Juil 26, 2022, 10:30 am

This year's Booker Prize longlist has just been announced:

Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
Trust by Hernan Diaz
The Trees by Percival Everett
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
The Colony by Audrey Magee
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

The shortlist will be unveiled on 6 September and the winner on 17 October.

I've read The Trees, which I loved and is fully deserving of the longlist. I haven't read and don't own any of the other longlisted books.

The Guardian: Booker prize longlist of 13 writers aged 20 to 87 announced

10kidzdoc
Sep 6, 2022, 2:40 pm

These six books were chosen for this year's Booker Prize shortlist:

Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
The Trees by Percival Everett
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

I loved The Trees, greatly enjoyed Small Things Like These, and disliked Oh William!, which I could only manage barely 100 pages of before I gave up in disgust. I'm reading Glory now, I bought a copy of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida last month, and I've just ordered a copy of Treacle Walker from the Book Depository.

11kidzdoc
Oct 17, 2022, 5:03 pm

The winner of this year's Booker Prize is The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by the Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka.

12Yells
Oct 17, 2022, 5:31 pm

Woohoo! A deserving win - I really enjoyed reading Seven Moons.

13kidzdoc
Oct 18, 2022, 10:29 am

>12 Yells: I'm glad that you enjoyed The Seven Moons, Danielle. I should finish it no later than Thursday, and I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being my favorite novel from this year's longlist.