The Booker Prize for Fiction

Book prize news 2024

Sadie Seroxcat
Seroxcat’s Salon

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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

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Sadie Seroxcat
Seroxcat’s Salon

Essays & Poetry. Chronic illness. Mental Health. Literature. Boost Nominator. 'Counter Arts', ‘Rainbow Salad’ & 'Seroxcat's Salon' sadie.seroxcat@googlemail.com