2024 Booker Prize Longlist
The 13-title longlist for the 2024 Booker Prize has been announced, with works of genre interest including:
- Wild Houses, Colin Barrett (Grove)
- Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel (Viking)
- James, Percival Everett (Mantle)
- Orbital, by Samantha Harvey (Jonathan Cape)
- My Friends, Hisham Matar (Viking)
- Playground, by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton)
The £50,000 prize is “open to works by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.” This year’s judges are Sara Collins, Justine Jordan, Yiyun Li, Nitin Sawhney, and chair Edmund de Waal.
The shortlist will be announced September 29, 2024. Shortlisted authors receive £2,500 and a “specially bound edition of their book.” Winners will be announced October 24, 2024.
For more information, including the complete longlist, see the Booker Prize website.
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