Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Powers are among 13 authors in the running for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction.
Britain's Ishiguro, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017, is on the longlist announced Tuesday for the 50,000-pound (USD 69,000) prize with 바카라Klara and the Sun,바카라 a novel about love and humanity narrated by a solar-powered android.
It is the fourth Booker nomination for Ishiguro, who won the prize in 1989 for 바카라The Remains of the Day.바카라
American author Powers is nominated for 바카라Bewilderment,바카라 about an astrobiologist and his neurodivergent son. Powers won the Pulitzer for fiction in 2019 for eco-epic 바카라The Overstory,바카라 which was also a Booker Prize finalist.
Other previous Booker contenders on this year's list include South Africa's Damon Galgut for his story of racism and reckoning, 바카라The Promise바카라; British writer Sunjeev Sahota for 바카라China Room,바카라 which travels between England and India; and Canada's Mary Lawson for her tale of life in a northern town, 바카라A Town Called Solace.바카라
Founded in 1969, the Booker Prize has a reputation for transforming writers' careers, and was originally open to British, Irish and Commonwealth writers. Eligibility was expanded in 2014 to all novels in English published in the U.K.
Two American first novels are among this year's contenders: Patricia Lockwood's social media-saturated story 바카라No One is Talking About This바카라 and Nathan Harris' best-seller 바카라The Sweetness of Water,바카라 set in the U.S. South at the end of the Civil War.
The list also includes 바카라Great Circle바카라 by American writer Maggie Shipstead, British novelist Francis Spufford's 바카라Light Perpetual,바카라 British/Somali author Nadifa Mohamed's 바카라The Fortune Men,바카라 British/Canadian writer Rachel Cusk's 바카라Second Place,바카라 South African novelist Karen Jennings's 바카라An Island바카라 and 바카라A Passage North바카라 by Sri Lankan writer Anuk Arudpragasam.
Historian Maya Jasanoff, who is chairing this year's judging panel, said many of the novels 바카라consider how people grapple with the past 바카라 whether personal experiences of grief or dislocation or the historical legacies of enslavement, apartheid, and civil war.바카라
바카라Many examine intimate relationships placed under stress, and through them meditate on ideas of freedom and obligation, or on what makes us human,바카라 she said.
바카라It's particularly resonant during the pandemic to note that all of these books have important things to say about the nature of community, from the tiny and secluded to the unmeasurable expanse of cyberspace.바카라
A six-book shortlist will be announced Sept. 14, and the winner will be crowned Nov. 3 during a ceremony in London.
