LONDON: Nobel Winner Kazuo Ishiguro and Pulitzer Gift winner of Richard’s strength is between 13 authors in carrying out prestigious booker prizes for fiction.
Ishiguro England, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2017, was on the Longlist list announced Tuesday for a prize of 50,000 pounds ($ 69,000) with “Klara and the Sun,” a novel about love and humanity told by solar powered Android.
This is the fourth booker nomination for Ishiguro, who won a prize in 1989 for “the rest of the day.” The strength of the American writer was nominated for “confused,” about an astrobiologist and his Neurodivergent son.
Powers won the Pulitzer for fiction in 2019 for EPIC “Overstory,” which is also a finalist of a booker gift.
Penang Booker Previously on this year’s list included South African Damon Galgut for his story about racism and calculation, “The Promise”; English writer Sunjeev Sahota for “Chinese space,” which moves between England and India; And Mary Lawson Canada for his life story in the northern city, “a city called Solace.” Established in 1969, the booker gift has a reputation for changing the author’s career, and was originally open to English, Irish and Commonwealth writers.
The feasibility was expanded in 2014 for all novels in English published in the UK.
The first two American novels are one of the competitors this year, the saturated story of Patricia Lockwood’s social media “no one talked about this” and Nathan Harris’ best-seller “sweet water,” located in the US to the south at the edge of the civil war.
This list also includes “Great Circle” by American writer Maggie Shipstead, British Novelist Francis Spuffford “Abadi Abadi,” English / Somalia, Nadifa Mohamed, “The Fortune Men,” English / Canadian writer, “Second place,” Karen Novelis South Africa , “” An island “and” a northern part “by the author of Sri Layan Anuk Arudpragasam.
Historian Maya Jasanoff, who chaired the assessment panel this year, said many novels” Consider how people wrestle with the past whether personal experience of sadness or dislocation or Heritage history of fisheries gem war, apartheid and civilian.
“” Many who examine intimate relationships are placed under pressure, and through them reflecting the idea of ​​freedom and obligation, or on what makes us humans, “he said.” This is very resonance during a pandemic to note that all of these books have important things to say about the nature of the community, from tiny and remote with the stretch of virtual world Yan g can not be measured.
“Short list of six books will be announced September 14, and the winner will be crowned November 3 during the ceremony in London.