2019 Booker Prize Shortlist Announced

2019 Booker Prize Shortlist Announced The  2019 Booker Prize Shortlist  has been  announced! This years shortlist includes six novels that span the globe, with the notable return of two previous winners of the awardâ€"Salman Rushdie, who won in 1981 with Midnights Children, and Margaret Atwood, whose  The Blind Assassin  won in 2000.  First awarded in 1969, the Booker Prize is open  to writers of any nationality writing in English and published in the UK or Ireland.  This years shortlist was selected from 151 submitted books. The winner will be announced October 14. Gaby Wood, Literary Director of the Booker Prize Foundation, writes of the shortlist: “It was hard to watch the judges narrow down their longlist to this shortlist: they were so committed to all 13 of the books they’d chosen just over a month ago that the discussion was intense. Still, these six remain extraordinary: they bring news of different worlds; they carry a wealth of lives and voices; they’re in conversation, in various ways, with other works of literature. I think it’s fair to say that the judges weren’t looking for anything in particularâ€"they entered this process with an open mindâ€"but this is what they found: a set of novels that is political, orchestral, fearless,  felt. And now, by association, those six will be in fruitful conversation with one another.” We are pleased to announce our #BookerPrize2019 shortlist. Watch what our judges had to say about the six selected books. #BookerPrize2019 #FinestFiction #BookLoversDay #shortlist #announcement pic.twitter.com/eq3LdFsohE The Booker Prizes (@TheBookerPrizes) September 3, 2019 2019 Booker Prize Shortlist The Testaments  by Margaret Atwood Ducks, Newburyport  by  Lucy Ellmann Girl, Woman, Other  by  Bernardine Evaristo An Orchestra of Minorities  by  Chigozie Obioma Quichotte  by  Salman Rushdie 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World  by  Elif Shafak The panel of judges for this year’s award include Peter Florence, founder and director of Hay Festival; former fiction publisher and editor Liz Calder; novelist, essayist, and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo; writer and broadcaster  Afua Hirsch; and concert pianist, conductor, and composer Joanna MacGregor. See more of Book Riot’s coverage of the Booker prize here. Sign up to Today In Books to receive  daily news and miscellany from the world of books. Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox.