The newly announced 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction longlist of 13 titles honors proven talent as well as a couple of debuts.
Douglas Stuart’s ‘Extraordinary Year’: ‘Shuggie Bain’ Rights Sales Are Soaring
The Scottish-American winner of the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction writes in Broad Scots and says he’s fascinated with translators’ work.
Douglas Stuart Wins the 2020 Booker Prize for ‘Shuggie Bain’
One of four debut novelists among the six writers shortlisted this year, Stuart wins for ‘Shuggie Bain,’ also a National Book Award finalist.
The Booker Prize 2020 Ceremony: Barack Obama and Camilla
Produced in partnership with the BBC, the Booker Prize for Fiction winner-announcement ceremony will be streamed on November 19 and feature several star speakers.
‘I Didn’t Believe It’: Responses to Kazuo Ishiguro’s Win of the Nobel Prize
Surprise–for Kazuo Ishiguro and industry–mixes with reassurance as the Swedish Academy returns to more traditional interpretations of the literature Nobel.