2023 Booker Prize
The Booker Prize is an annual literary award given for the best English-language novel of the year published in either the United Kingdom or Ireland.[1] The 2023 winner was Paul Lynch's Prophet Song.
The 2023 longlist was announced on 1 August.[2] The shortlist, announced on 21 September,[3] consisted of six books from six different authors, one British, one Canadian, two Irish, and two American. For all six authors, this marked the first time that they had appeared in a Booker Prize shortlist.[4] For two writers, Escoffery and Maroo, the shortlist honour was given for their debut novels.[5] With the 2023 longlisting for her work 'All the Little Bird-Hearts', Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow became the first person with autism to be nominated for a Booker prize.[6] Regarding the 2023 shortlisted works, novelist and chair of the Booker Prize Judging Panel, Esi Edugyan stated "This year's novels offer a full range of lived experience, the books refuse easy categorization. No one voice, no one vision dominates."[7]
The winner was announced on 26 November 2023, at the Old Billingsgate in London.[8] The £50,000 prize was won by Paul Lynch of Ireland for his novel Prophet Song.[9][3] Esi Edugyan stated that the work was a "triumph of emotional storytelling, bracing and brave". Edugyan also stated that the book's depiction of war and the migrant crisis "captures the social and political anxieties of our current moment."[10]
The keynote speaker for the award ceremony was Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was detained in an Iranian prison for about six years and released in March 2022. Zaghari-Ratcliffe explained how books that were smuggled to her had helped her during her time in solitary confinement.[11]
Judging panel
- Esi Edugyan (chair)
- Adjoa Andoh
- Robert Webb
- James Shapiro
- Mary Jean Chan
Nominees
Shortlist
Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Paul Lynch | Prophet Song | Novel | Ireland | Oneworld Publications |
Paul Murray | The Bee Sting | Novel | Ireland | Hamish Hamilton |
Chetna Maroo | Western Lane | Novel | Kenya/England | Picador |
Paul Harding | This Other Eden | Novel | USA | Hutchinson Heinemann |
Jonathan Escoffery | If I Survive You | Novel | USA | 4th Estate |
Sarah Bernstein | Study for Obedience | Novel | Canada | Granta Books |
Longlist
Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Tan Twan Eng | The House of Doors | Novel | Malaysia | Canongate |
Martin MacInnes | In Ascension | Novel | Scotland | Atlantic Books |
Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow | All the Little Bird-Hearts | Novel | England | Tinder Press |
Siân Hughes | Pearl | Novel | England | Indigo Press |
Elaine Feeney | How to Build a Boat | Novel | Ireland | Harvill Secker |
Sebastian Barry | Old God's Time | Novel | Ireland | Faber & Faber |
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ | A Spell of Good Things | Novel | Nigeria/England | Canongate |
Paul Murray | The Bee Sting | Novel | Ireland | Hamish Hamilton |
Chetna Maroo | Western Lane | Novel | Kenya/England | Picador |
Paul Lynch | Prophet Song | Novel | Ireland | Oneworld Publications |
Paul Harding | This Other Eden | Novel | USA | Hutchinson Heinemann |
Jonathan Escoffery | If I Survive You | Novel | USA | 4th Estate |
Sarah Bernstein | Study for Obedience | Novel | Canada | Granta Books |
See also
References
- ^ "About the Booker Prize". The Booker Prizes. Archived from the original on 27 November 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ "The Booker Prize 2023 longlist". thebookerprizes.com. The Booker Prizes. August 2023. Archived from the original on 22 October 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
- ^ a b "The Booker Prize 2023". thebookerprizes.com. Booker Prizes. Archived from the original on 1 August 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
- ^ Creamer, Ella (21 September 2023). "Just one British writer makes the Booker prize shortlist". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 27 November 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ Razzall, Katie (26 November 2023). "Booker Prize 2023 shortlist: Who are the six authors hoping to win tonight?". Archived from the original on 26 November 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ "Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow interview: 'I'd be happy for more autistic writers to be celebrated' | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. 21 August 2023. Archived from the original on 4 December 2023. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
- ^ Nguyen, Sophia (21 September 2023). "Here are the 6 finalists for the 2023 Booker Prize023 Booker Prize". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 26 October 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ "Your Guide to Reading the Booker Prize Shortlist". russh.com. Russh Media Pty Ltd. Archived from the original on 22 October 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
- ^ Marshall, Alex (26 November 2023). "Paul Lynch Wins Booker Prize for 'Prophet Song'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 26 November 2023.
- ^ Marshall, Alex (26 November 2023). "Paul Lynch Wins Booker Prize for 'Prophet Song'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 27 November 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ Creamer, Ella (26 November 2023). "'Soul-shattering' Prophet Song by Paul Lynch wins 2023 Booker prize". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 27 November 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
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- 1969: P. H. Newby (Something to Answer For)
- 1970: Bernice Rubens (The Elected Member)
- 1970 Lost Prize: J. G. Farrell (Troubles)
- 1971: V. S. Naipaul (In a Free State)
- 1972: John Berger (G.)
- 1973: J. G. Farrell (The Siege of Krishnapur)
- 1974: Nadine Gordimer (The Conservationist) and Stanley Middleton (Holiday)
- 1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Heat and Dust)
- 1976: David Storey (Saville)
- 1977: Paul Scott (Staying On)
- 1978: Iris Murdoch (The Sea, The Sea)
- 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald (Offshore)
- 1980: William Golding (Rites of Passage)
- 1981: Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children)
- 1982: Thomas Keneally (Schindler's Ark)
- 1983: J. M. Coetzee (Life & Times of Michael K)
- 1984: Anita Brookner (Hotel du Lac)
- 1985: Keri Hulme (The Bone People)
- 1986: Kingsley Amis (The Old Devils)
- 1987: Penelope Lively (Moon Tiger)
- 1988: Peter Carey (Oscar and Lucinda)
- 1989: Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day)
- 1990: A. S. Byatt (Possession)
- 1991: Ben Okri (The Famished Road)
- 1992: Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient) and Barry Unsworth (Sacred Hunger)
- 1993: Roddy Doyle (Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha)
- 1994: James Kelman (How Late It Was, How Late)
- 1995: Pat Barker (The Ghost Road)
- 1996: Graham Swift (Last Orders)
- 1997: Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)
- 1998: Ian McEwan (Amsterdam)
- 1999: J. M. Coetzee (Disgrace)
- 2000: Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin)
- 2001: Peter Carey (True History of the Kelly Gang)
- 2002: Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
- 2003: DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little)
- 2004: Alan Hollinghurst (The Line of Beauty)
- 2005: John Banville (The Sea)
- 2006: Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss)
- 2007: Anne Enright (The Gathering)
- 2008: Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger)
- 2009: Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall)
- 2010: Howard Jacobson (The Finkler Question)
- 2011: Julian Barnes (The Sense of an Ending)
- 2012: Hilary Mantel (Bring Up the Bodies)
- 2013: Eleanor Catton (The Luminaries)
- 2014: Richard Flanagan (The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
- 2015: Marlon James (A Brief History of Seven Killings)
- 2016: Paul Beatty (The Sellout)
- 2017: George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo)
- 2018: Anna Burns (Milkman)
- 2019: Margaret Atwood (The Testaments) and Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other)
- 2020: Douglas Stuart (Shuggie Bain)
- 2021: Damon Galgut (The Promise)
- 2022: Shehan Karunatilaka (The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida)
- 2023: Paul Lynch (Prophet Song)