The Booker Prize has announced a prestigious long list for 2021 and the author of Sunjeev Sahota, Rachel Cusk, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Patricia Lockwood is among those who are longlisted.
As many as 13 writers have succeeded in reaching a dozen bookers this year.
Founded in 1969, The Booker Prize was one of the most prestigious annual awards given to novels written in English and published in the UK.
Longlist for a 50,000 pound 2021 book gift announced on July 27.
Maya Jasanoff’s historian, chairman of the judge, said that books that bent for Booker 2021 gifts “consider how people wrestle with the past – whether personal experience of sadness or dislocation or inheritance of slavery, apartheid, and civil war.”
“Lots of checking intimate relationships that are placed under pressure, and through them to reflect on the idea of freedom and obligation, or on what makes us human …
It’s very resonance during a pandemic to note that all of these books have important things to say about nature Community, from tiny and remote with a stretch of vineyards that are not measurable, “he said.
Ishiguro England, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2017, was laughed for booker gifts 2021 for his new book ‘Klara and Sun’.
This novel is about love and humanity told by solar-powered Android.
It was noted that Ishiguro won a booker prize in 1989 for his book ‘The remnants of today’, while this was the fourth time he was nominated for prestigious prizes.
American writer Powers Richard won the 2019 Pulitzer prize for fiction for his ‘The Overstory’ book; The book was also a finalist booker that year.
Powers are nominated this year to ‘confusion’, namely about an astrobiologist and his Neurodivergent son.
Other Penang Bookers on this year’s list include Galgut Damon South Africa for his story about racism and calculation, ‘The Promise “‘ British writer from Sunjeev Sahota for ‘Chinese space’, which moves between England and India; and Canada Lawson for his life story at Northern city, ‘a city called Solace’, reported the AP.
Longlist this year also includes two novels debuted by American writer Patricia Lockwood and Nathan Harris.
While Patricia Lockwood was nominated for her social media story ‘Nobody talked about this’, Nathan Harris was nominated for the ‘sweet water’ set at the end of the civil war in the United States.
This list also includes’ big circle ‘by American writer Maggie Shipstead, English novelist Francis Spufford’ eternal light ‘, English / Somali writer Nadifa Mohamed’s’ The Fortune Men’, British writer / Canada ” second ‘, South Africa Novelis, Karen Jennings ‘An island’ and ‘a northern part’ by the author of Sri Lanka and the winner of the DSC Anuk Arudpragasam prize, AP report.
A short list of six books will be announced September 14.
The BOOKER 2021 prize winner will be disclosed on November 3 this year during the ceremony in London.
