LONDON (AP) Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Powers are among 13 authors in the running for the coveted Booker Prize for fiction. Britain’s Ishiguro, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017, is on a long list with Clara and the Sun for the £50,000 (USD 69,000) prize announced on Tuesday for a love story described by a solar-powered android. A novel about humanity. This is the fourth Booker nomination for Ishiguro, who won the award in 1989 for The Remains of the Day.
American author Powers is nominated for Bewildrement, about an astrobiologist and his neurodivergent son. Powers won a Pulitzer for fiction in 2019 for the eco-epic The Overstory, which was also a Booker Prize finalist. Other past Booker contenders on this year’s list include South Africa’s Damon Galgut, in his tale of racism and calculation, The Promise; British author Sanjeev Sahota for China Room, which travels between England and India; and Mary Lawson of Canada for her life story in A Town Called Solace, a northern town.
Established in 1969, the Booker Prize has a reputation for transforming writers’ careers, and was originally open to British, Irish and Commonwealth writers. Eligibility was expanded to all novels in English published in the UK in 2014. Two American debut novels are among this year’s contenders: Patricia Lockwood’s social media-saturated story No One Is Talking About This and Nathan Harris’ best-seller. The Sweetness of Water, set in the American South at the end of the Civil War.
The list includes American author Maggie Shipstead, British novelist Francis Spafford’s Light Perpetual, British/Somali author Nadifa Mohamed’s The Fortune Men, British/Canadian author Rachel Cusx’s Second Place, South African novelist Karen Jennings’ An Island and Great Circle by A Passage North. are also included. Sri Lankan writer Anuk Arudapragasam. Historian Maya Jasnoff, who is chairing this year’s jury, said many of the novels look at how people grapple with the past, whether personal experiences of suffering or displacement, or of slavery, apartheid and civil war. Historical Heritage.
Many examine intimate relationships placed under tension, and through them pay attention to notions of freedom and obligation, or what makes us human, she said. What makes it particularly resonant during a pandemic is that all of these books have important things to say about the nature of community, from the small and lonely to the incomprehensible expanse of cyberspace. The six-book shortlist will be announced on 14 September, and the winner will be crowned during a ceremony in London on 3 November. (AP).
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