The Booker Prizes | Jessica Brown Findlay reads from ‘Still Born’ | The Booker Prize @TheBookerPrizes | Uploaded May 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
WARNING: contains descriptions of prenatal complications that some viewers may find upsetting.
Watch Jessica Brown Findlay read an extract from ‘Still Born’, an International Booker Prize 2023-shortlisted novel written by Guadalupe Nettel and translated by Rosalind Harvey.
The story so far: Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Alina becomes pregnant and when complications arise in her pregnancy, both women are forced to reckon with the complexity of their emotions, in Nettel’s sensitive and surgically precise exploration of maternal ambivalence.
Discover the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/still-born
Directed by Hannah Berry George for Mermade Films
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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 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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WARNING: contains descriptions of prenatal complications that some viewers may find upsetting.
Watch Jessica Brown Findlay read an extract from ‘Still Born’, an International Booker Prize 2023-shortlisted novel written by Guadalupe Nettel and translated by Rosalind Harvey.
The story so far: Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Alina becomes pregnant and when complications arise in her pregnancy, both women are forced to reckon with the complexity of their emotions, in Nettel’s sensitive and surgically precise exploration of maternal ambivalence.
Discover the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/still-born
Directed by Hannah Berry George for Mermade Films
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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 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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