The Booker Prizes | Exploring the 2023 Booker Prize Shortlist (Part 1) | The Booker Prize Podcast, Episode 18 @TheBookerPrizes | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
We're a month away from finding out which title will take home the 2023 Booker Prize so what better time to take a deep dive into this year's final six? This week, in the first of two parts, we're exploring half of the books. Listen in to hear what Jo and James make of them, whether virtuousness is a desirable quality in these novels and what the shortlist says about the state of fiction today.
In this episode Jo and James discuss:
- Their overview of the 2023 shortlist, and what it says about fiction today
- How these books would behave if they were guests in your house
- The common themes that run through these novels
- Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You
- Paul Harding's This Other Eden
- Sarah Bernstein's Study for Obedience
Reading list:
- If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/if-i-survive-you
- This Other Eden by Paul Harding: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/this-other-eden
- Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/study-for-obedience
A full transcript of the episode is available at our website: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-booker-prize-podcast-episode-18
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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
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We're a month away from finding out which title will take home the 2023 Booker Prize so what better time to take a deep dive into this year's final six? This week, in the first of two parts, we're exploring half of the books. Listen in to hear what Jo and James make of them, whether virtuousness is a desirable quality in these novels and what the shortlist says about the state of fiction today.
In this episode Jo and James discuss:
- Their overview of the 2023 shortlist, and what it says about fiction today
- How these books would behave if they were guests in your house
- The common themes that run through these novels
- Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You
- Paul Harding's This Other Eden
- Sarah Bernstein's Study for Obedience
Reading list:
- If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/if-i-survive-you
- This Other Eden by Paul Harding: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/this-other-eden
- Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/study-for-obedience
A full transcript of the episode is available at our website: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-booker-prize-podcast-episode-18
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The Booker Prizes on TikTok: tiktok.com/@thebookerprizes
The Booker Prizes on Twitter: twitter.com/TheBookerPrizes
The Booker Prizes on Facebook: facebook.com/TheBookerPrizes
The Booker Prizes on Instagram: instagram.com/thebookerprizes
The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
#BookerPrize
