With the turn of the year, the literary world is abuzz with speculations, predictions, and a heap of reading lists. The tabs are kept on the shortlist announcement for one prize above all others: The Booker Prize. Brace yourselves, bibliophiles, because the Booker Prize Shortlist 2023 is unveiled.
Six breathtaking narratives of authors never shorlisted before, six touchstones of literary genius, 2 of them being debut novels, and, uh oh - a handful of Pauls? That's right; this year it seems to be raining Pauls at the Booker.
The winner of the £50,000 prize will be announced at an event at Old Billingsgate, London, on November 26, 2023.
Find the long list and short list nominees at your favorite Bookazine!
THE SHORTLIST
A patch of ice on the road, a casual favour to a charming stranger, a bee caught beneath a bridal veil – can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of a life?
A mother faces a terrible choice, in Paul Lynch’s exhilarating, propulsive and confrontational portrait of a society on the brink.
An exhilarating novel-in-stories that pulses with style, heart and barbed humour, while unravelling what it means to carve out an existence between cultures, homes and pay cheques.
Chetna Maroo's tender and moving debut novel about grief, sisterhood, a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself – and squash.
Full of lyricism and power, Paul Harding's spellbinding novel celebrates the hopes, dreams and resilience of those deemed not to fit in a world brutally intolerant of difference.
In her accomplished and unsettling second novel, Sarah Bernstein explores themes of prejudice, abuse and guilt through the eyes of a singularly unreliable narrator.
