2019 Booker Prize
The 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on 14 October 2019.[1] The Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 23 July,[2] and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 3 September.[3] The Prize was awarded jointly to Margaret Atwood for The Testaments and Bernardine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other. This was the first time the prize was shared since 1992, despite a rule change banning joint winners.[1]
Judging panel
Nominees (shortlist)
| Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Atwood | The Testaments | Novel | Canada | Vintage, Chatto & Windus |
| Lucy Ellmann | Ducks, Newburyport | Novel | USA/UK | Galley Beggar Press |
| Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other | Novel | UK | Hamish Hamilton |
| Chigozie Obioma | An Orchestra of Minorities | Novel | Nigeria | Little Brown |
| Salman Rushdie | Quichotte | Novel | UK/India | Jonathan Cape |
| Elif Shafak | 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World | Novel | UK/Turkey | Viking |
Nominees (longlist)
| Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Atwood | The Testaments | Novel | Canada | Vintage, Chatto & Windus |
| Kevin Barry | Night Boat to Tangier | Novel | Ireland | Canongate Books |
| Oyinkan Braithwaite | My Sister, The Serial Killer | Novel | UK/Nigeria | Atlantic Books |
| Lucy Ellmann | Ducks, Newburyport | Novel | USA/UK | Galley Beggar Press |
| Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other | Novel | UK | Hamish Hamilton |
| John Lanchester | The Wall | Novel | UK | Faber & Faber |
| Deborah Levy | The Man Who Saw Everything | Novel | UK | Hamish Hamilton |
| Valeria Luiselli | Lost Children Archive | Novel | Mexico/Italy | Fourth Estate |
| Chigozie Obioma | An Orchestra of Minorities | Novel | Nigeria | Little Brown |
| Max Porter | Lanny | Novel | UK | Faber & Faber |
| Salman Rushdie | Quichotte | Novel | UK/India | Jonathan Cape |
| Elif Shafak | 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World | Novel | UK/Turkey | Viking |
| Jeanette Winterson | Frankissstein | Novel | UK | Jonathan Cape |
See also
References
- ^ a b Flood, Alison (14 October 2019). "Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share Booker prize 2019". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
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