2019 Booker Prize

Literary award
Margaret Atwood (left) and Bernardine Evaristo (right), joint winners of the 2019 Booker Prize

The 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on 14 October 2019.[1] The Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 23 July,[2] and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 3 September.[3] The Booker Prize was awarded jointly to Margaret Atwood for The Testaments and Bernardine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other. This was the first time the prize was shared since 1992, despite a rule change banning joint winners.[1]

Judging panel

  • Peter Florence (chair)
  • Liz Calder
  • Xiaolu Guo
  • Afua Hirsch
  • Joanna MacGregor

Nominees

  indicates the winner

Shortlist

Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher
Margaret Atwood The Testaments Novel Canada Vintage, Chatto & Windus
Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other Novel UK Hamish Hamilton
Lucy Ellmann Ducks, Newburyport Novel USA/UK Galley Beggar Press
Chigozie Obioma An Orchestra of Minorities Novel Nigeria Little Brown
Salman Rushdie Quichotte Novel UK/India Jonathan Cape
Elif Shafak 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Novel UK/Turkey Viking

Longlist

Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher
Margaret Atwood The Testaments Novel Canada Vintage, Chatto & Windus
Kevin Barry Night Boat to Tangier Novel Ireland Canongate Books
Oyinkan Braithwaite My Sister, The Serial Killer Novel UK/Nigeria Atlantic Books
Lucy Ellmann Ducks, Newburyport Novel USA/UK Galley Beggar Press
Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other Novel UK Hamish Hamilton
John Lanchester The Wall Novel UK Faber & Faber
Deborah Levy The Man Who Saw Everything Novel UK Hamish Hamilton
Valeria Luiselli Lost Children Archive Novel Mexico/Italy Fourth Estate
Chigozie Obioma An Orchestra of Minorities Novel Nigeria Little Brown
Max Porter Lanny Novel UK Faber & Faber
Salman Rushdie Quichotte Novel UK/India Jonathan Cape
Elif Shafak 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Novel UK/Turkey Viking
Jeanette Winterson Frankissstein Novel UK Jonathan Cape

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Flood, Alison (14 October 2019). "Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share Booker prize 2019". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Booker Prize 2019 longlist announced". Books+Publishing. 4 September 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
  3. ^ "Booker Prize 2019 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 4 September 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
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