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    The 2024 Booker Prize longlist is here.

    James Folta
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    July 30, 2024, 11:26am

    Here it is: the 2024 Booker Prize longlist, heavy on previously nominated authors and featuring new voices, including the first Native American and Dutch authors.

    Edmund de Waal, the head of the judging committee, described the list of 13 novels as “a cohort of global voices, strong voices and new voices,” and added that “these are not books ‘about issues’: they are works of fiction that inhabit ideas by making us care deeply about people and their predicaments, their singularity in a world that can be indifferent or hostile.”

    Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
    Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
    Anne Michaels,Held
    Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
    Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
    Richard Powers, Playground
    Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
    Samantha Harvey, Orbital
    Percival Everett, James
    Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep
    Hisham Matar, My Friends
    Charlotte Wood, Stone Yard Devotional
    Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

    The longlist was chosen out of a pool of 156 books written in English and published between October 2023 and September 2024. The shortlist of six will be announced on September 16th. Shortlisters are awarded £2,500 and the winner gets a hefty £50,000.

    There’s lots more information on the longlist books and authors, as well as the Prize and its judges, on the Booker Prize website.

    Anne Michaels Charlotte Wood Claire Messud Colin Barrett creation lake Enlightenment Headshot Held Hisham Matar James My Friends orbital Percival Everett Playground Rachel Kushner Richard Powers Rita Bullwinkel Samantha Harvey Sarah Perry stone yard devotional the Booker Prize The Booker Prize 2024 The Safekeep This Strange Eventful History Tommy Orange Wandering Stars Wild Houses Yael van der Wouden

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