The Booker Prize for Fiction
Book prize news 2024
Announced on the evening of September 16 — drum roll — this year’s shortlist for the Booker Prize, for fiction written in the English language and published during the last twelve months. This list has been much anticipated and discussed, not least by me!
Judges:
- Edmund de Waal (artist and author)
- Sara Collins (award-winning novelist)
- Justine Jordan (The Guardian’s Fiction Editor)
- Yiyun Li (writer and professor)
- Nitin Sawhney (musician, composer and producer)
The 2024 Longlist:
‘Wandering Stars’ — Tommy Orange
‘Wild Houses’ — Colin Barrett
‘Held’ — Anne Michaels
‘Creation Lake’ — Rachel Kushner
‘This Strange Eventful History’
‘Playground’ — Richard
‘Enlightenment’ — Sarah Perry
‘Orbital’ — Samantha Harvey
‘James’ — Percival Everett
‘The Safekeep’ — Yael van der Wouden
‘My Friends’ — Hisham Matar
‘Stone Yard Devotional’ — Charlotte Wood
‘Headshot’ — Rita Bullwinkel