This year, the youngest and oldest authors in its history are applying for the prize.
One of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, Bukerivska, announced a long list of contenders for this year's award. It included 13 books, according to the award's website.
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It is noted that this year the youngest and oldest authors in history of the award. In addition, Claire Keegan's 116-page novel Such Little Things became the shortest Booker Prize contender in its history. It broke the record set in 1979 by the novel Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald, it consists of 132 pages. This is the second time her novel has been shortlisted for the Booker, the first time it happened in 2009.
This year's Booker Prize Longlist
- Audrey Magee The Colony
- Selby Wynn Schwartz After Sappho
- New Violet Bulawayo Glory
- Claire Keegan Small Things Like These
- Leila Motley Nightcrawling
- Maddie Mortimer Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
- Graham McRae Barnett Case Study
- Alan Garner Treacle Walker
- Percival Everett The Trees
- Hernan Diaz Trust
- Shehan Karunatilaka The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
- Elizabeth Strout Oh William!
- Karen Joy Fowler Booth
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Remember, last year, South African writer Demon Gelgut won the Booker Prize. He was awarded for the novel “The Promise”.
