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Booker Prize for Fiction 2021: the shortlisted authors | Books | DW

By Dane Bi
November 3, 2021
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Booker Prize Judging Chairperson historian Maya Jasanoff announced the six shortlisted authors for the £ 50,000 (€ 58,750) prize earlier this year. An early novelist, American author Patricia Lockwood, Sri Lankan writer Anuk Arudpragasam, British Somali novelist Nadifa Mohamed and South African scribe Damon Galgut – whose novel “The Promise” is the favorite to win the prestigious award – are among the various authors. vying for literary greatness.

Patricia Lockwood is the only first novelist on the list

1. Patricia lockwood

The American poet and writer is the only first novelist in the 2021 shortlist, with “No One is Talking About This” also shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Having already written two books of poetry and the memoir “Priestdaddy”, the editor of the London book review wrote a poignant drama of life in the Internet age. The book tells the story of a social media guru who travels through a world dominated by her internet existence, which she calls “the portal.” Two urgent text messages from his mother pierce the guru’s bubble.

Booker Prize 2021 Short List

Nadifa Mohamed is the first British Somali to be on the shortlist

2. Nadifa Mohamed

First British Somali novelist to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Nadifa Mohamed’s third novel, “The Fortune Men”, is the poignant fictionalized tale of Mahmood Mattan, a father and petty thief who was wrongly convicted of murder in 1952 – and the last man to be hanged in Cardiff prison in Wales. When a trader is brutally killed, the accused Mahmood, a Somali immigrant, is safe in his innocence – until the trial draws near and he comes face to face with a conspiracy and innate prejudices against him. will inflict the ultimate punishment. “I knew I wanted to make the line between fact and fiction imperceptible,” said the author.

The author holds his book

Richard Powers: author of bestseller “The Overstory” was nominated for the second time for “Bewilderment”

3. Richard Powers

The award-winning American author of 13 novels has been shortlisted twice for The Booker, and this year is shortlisted for “Bewilderment”. After “The Overstory” was on the list in 2018 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, “Bewilderment” details a special relationship between a scientific father and his loving son who wants to save the world but has just attacked a friend in school. Does the boy need to take any medicine? Instead, his father takes him on a trip to space to understand his own destructive planet.

4. Anuk Arudpragasam

The Sri Lankan Tamil novelist is shortlisted for his second novel, “A Passage North”. Arudpragasam was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize who studied philosophy in the United States, his nominee Booker is trying to come to terms with life following the devastation caused by the 30-year civil war in Sri Lanka. As Krishan makes the long train journey from Colombo to a northern Tamil province to attend a family funeral, a journey begins into the bruised soul of a shattered land.

Cover of the novel La Promesse

‘The Promise’ is the current favorite for the price

5. Damon Galgut

The South African playwright and novelist wrote his first novel at the age of 17 and has now been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize, this time for ‘The Promise’, the top favorite. Having won the Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2015 for her eighth book, “Arctic Summer”, her latest novel details the intergenerational split within a white South African farming family. At the matriarch’s funeral, children express their contempt for everything the family stands for, including the broken promise to the black woman who has worked for them her entire life.

Maggie Shipstead holds up her Great Circle book

Maggie Shipstead’s third novel “Great Circle” sees parallel worlds collide

6. Maggie Shipstead

The American novelist is shortlisted for her third novel, “Great Circle”, which is expected to follow the success of her 2012 debut novel, “Seating Arrangements”. – a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Dylan Thomas award. “The Great Circle” portrays the crossed lives of a pioneering aviator and the actress who portrayed her onscreen decades later. When the daredevil Marian Graves in 1950 embarks on her ultimate adventure, the Grand Cercle – a flight around the world – she will never be seen again. Half a century later, Hadley Baxter, a scandalized Hollywood actress whose own parents perished in a plane crash, is irresistibly drawn to Marian Graves.

  • Indian writer Arundhati Roy in 1997

    The Booker Prize: the winners who changed literature

    Arundhati Roy – “The God of Small Things” (1997)

    Arundhati Roy took the literary world by storm in 1997 with her story of fraternal twins Rahel and Estha coming of age amid political turmoil in Kerala, southern India. Set against the backdrop of their struggling blind grandmother’s factory, the story set in the late 1960s dwells on deep-rooted Indian caste society, its religious diversity and complex social hierarchies.

  • Michael Ondaatje speaks after winning the Golden Man Booker in London

    The Booker Prize: the winners who changed literature

    Michael Ondaatje – “The English Patient” (1992)

    Booker-winning 1992 Michael Ondaatje’s famous novel explores four intersecting lives in an Italian villa as WWII draws to a close and bombs fall on Hiroshima. An exhausted nurse, a mutilated thief and a suspicious military engineer are haunted by the English patient upstairs, who is burnt to the point of unrecognizable. The novel was adapted into a 1996 film which won nine Oscars.

  • Margaret Atwood poses to promote her novel, The Heart Goes Last in Toronto

    The Booker Prize: the winners who changed literature

    Margaret Atwood – “Blind Assassin” (2000)

    The Canadian author is perhaps best known for “The Handmaid’s Tale” (1985), but “The Blind Assassin” won him the Booker Prize in 2000. A multi-level drama that weaves its narrative threads through the past and the present, fiction and reality, ”said the jury for this iconic story about an aging woman who reflects on the mysterious untimely death of her sister and the ensuing scandal.

  • Authors Hilary Mantel win Man Booker Prize for Fiction

    The Booker Prize: the winners who changed literature

    Hilary Mantel – ‘Bringing the Bodies’ (2012)

    The sequel to Hilary Mantel’s historic Tudor England novel “Wolf Hall” (also a Booker winner, making her the first British woman and author to win twice), “Bring Up the Bodies” sees Anne Boleyn, for whom Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church, having no sons to secure the Tudor lineage. The king’s chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, must now find a solution to secure his own future.

  • Book Cover: The Narrow Road to the Deep North

    The Booker Prize: the winners who changed literature

    Richard Flanagan – “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” (2014)

    Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, the Australian author’s historical novel was a brutal depiction of the infamous Thailand-Burma Death Railway during World War II. It centers on an Australian surgeon in the camp who remains haunted by his affair with his uncle’s young wife as he struggles to save the men from starvation, cholera and torture.

  • Novelist George Saunders holds a book

    The Booker Prize: the winners who changed literature

    George Saunders – “Lincoln in the Bardo” (2017)

    American writer George Saunders’ debut novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo”, was an experimental work that was hailed by the foreman for “its innovation … the way in which it paradoxically brought these almost to life. dead souls. ” He sees President Abraham Lincoln visiting the body of his 11-year-old son, whose soul still lives, in a Washington cemetery in 1862.

  • Portrait of Bernardine Evaristo

    The Booker Prize: the winners who changed literature

    Bernardine Evaristo – ‘Girl, woman, other’ (2019)

    “With dazzling originality, irrepressible wit and sly wisdom, Bernardine Evaristo presents a genre of history gloriously new to this old country,” wrote the Booker Prize jury of the first black writer to win the award (shared with Margaret Atwood for “The Testaments”). The novel traces the lives of 12 women, mostly women and blacks who come of age in the UK through various generations and social classes.

  • A boy and a woman are in bed

    The Booker Prize: the winners who changed literature

    Douglas Stuart – ‘Shuggie Bain’ (2020)

    It took 10 years to write and was rejected 32 times before it was finally published. Yet the 2020 Booker Prize jury only needed an hour to choose Douglas Stuart’s “Shuggie Bain” as the winner from six shortlisted works. “I am absolutely stunned,” Stuart said. The first novel draws on his own life growing up gay in the impoverished city of Glasgow in the 1980s while battling his mother’s alcoholism.

    Author: Stuart Braun


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