The Booker Prizes | The International Booker Prize 2024 Shortlist (Part 2) | The Booker Prize Podcast, Episode 40 @TheBookerPrizes | Uploaded May 2024 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
With under a week until the International Booker Prize 2024 ceremony, we're back with the second part of our deep dive into this year's six shortlist books. Listen in to hear what Jo and James think of the remaining three books on the list, common themes that run across the shortlisted reads and which book they want to see win the award.
In this episode Jo and James discuss:
- Brief biographies of each author, and short summaries of each book
- Their thoughts on the three books books discussed in this episode
- The common themes running through these books
- Which book they think might win
Reading list:
- Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/mater-2-10
- Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/crooked-plow
- Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/not-a-river
A full transcript of the episode is available at our website.
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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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With under a week until the International Booker Prize 2024 ceremony, we're back with the second part of our deep dive into this year's six shortlist books. Listen in to hear what Jo and James think of the remaining three books on the list, common themes that run across the shortlisted reads and which book they want to see win the award.
In this episode Jo and James discuss:
- Brief biographies of each author, and short summaries of each book
- Their thoughts on the three books books discussed in this episode
- The common themes running through these books
- Which book they think might win
Reading list:
- Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/mater-2-10
- Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/crooked-plow
- Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/not-a-river
A full transcript of the episode is available at our website.
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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
