LONDON: The winner of the Prestigious British Booker Booker will be announced on Wednesday from a list of diverse novels that cover topics from South African apartheid to female pilots and social media.
This year’s finalist competed to find a prize at the ceremony in London from 1915 GMT including books by writers from South Africa, England, Sri Lanka and the United States.
Color South Africa Damon Galgut, 57, led to win with his novel “The Promise” about a white family with agriculture outside Pretoria.
Covering the late Apartheid era until the Jacob Zuma presidency, this book shows a family disintegration that develops when the country appears in democracy.
The New Yorker calls it “extraordinary”, while South South African Sunday said, “It was amazing how many galgut histories with this short novel”.
Prizes, the previous recipients including Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Hilary Coats, are one of the leading literary awards for novels written in English.
Winners receive a prize of £ 50,000 ($ 68,000) and an increase in career change in sales and public profiles.
Galgut was one of the two previous authors, along with our author Richard Powers, 64, whose novel was “confused” was about an astrobiologist who struggled to overcome the problem of his son’s behavior.
Another US author, Patricia Lockwood, 39, was nominated for his debut novel, “Nobody talked about this,” featuring 30-something obsessed with social media that had to deal with a surprising medical diagnosis.
Other books look back on the history of the 20th century.
Sri Lanka Writer Anuk Arudpragasam, 33, in his second novel, “A Passage North”, focuses on the traumatic legacy of civil war which has almost three decades of the country ending in 2009.
“The Fortune Men”, by English-Somalia Nadifa Mohamed, 40, is based In the true story of a Somalia Sailor was misused because of the murder at the Cardiff multicultural port in the 1950s.
“Big Circle”, by US novelist Maggie Shapstead, 38, telling the story of a fictional fictional pilot who hopes to fly around the pole-to-pole globe, intertwined with the narrative of the first person from Starlet Hollywood playing its role.
This year’s television broadcasting ceremony at the BBC Broadcasting House in London will be attended by all selected authors, after Covid’s restrictions caused a video appearance last year.
The ceremony will include pre-recorded conversations between Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and a long-term cross-sectionary advocate, and last year’s laureate Douglas Stuart, 45, about how to win a prize for the novel “Shuggie Bain” has affected his life.