Who is Most Likely to Win the Booker Prize 2024?
Who is Most Likely to Win the Booker Prize 2024?
The annual Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, is one of the most prestigious awards in literature.
Every year, the event will present the literary award to a worthy English-language novelist, and the chosen recipient will also receive £50,000. Every shortlisted author will receive £2,500, too.
The Booker Prize 2024 has shortlisted six exceptional authors for the internationally respected prize.
This year’s prize has made history, as four out of the six shortlisted authors are women, meaning it is the largest number of females represented since the event began in 1969.
Keep reading to learn who is most likely to win the sought-after Booker Prize 2024.
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Who Made the Shortlist for the Booker Prize 2024?
All works of English-language fiction by authors worldwide and published in the UK or Ireland are eligible for the Booker Prize 2024.
Despite having numerous novels to choose from over the past 12 months, the judging panel recently announced a shortlist of the following six books from exceptional authors:
- Orbital – Samantha Harvey (UK)
- Held – Anna Michaels (Canada)
- The Safe Keep – Yael van der Wouden (Netherlands)
- James – Percival Everett (US)
- Stone Yard Devotion – Charlotte Wood (Australia)
- Creation Lake – Rachel Kushner (US)
Who is Most Likely to Win the Booker Prize 2024?
Percival Everett’s James, a reimagining of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is the current favorite to win the Booker Prize 2024.
The 2024 novel is told from the perspective of James, Huckleberry Finn’s friend and an escaped slave. Also, it explores serious issues of rape, racism, murder, and violence.
According to one of the Booker Prize judges, “James was shortlisted as it is a “powerful, genre-defying, revisionist exploration of slavery, identity and the pursuit of freedom that subverts all expectations and further establishes Percival Everett as a masterful storyteller.”
If Percival Everett’s name isn’t called in November, it wouldn’t be a shock if Charlotte Wood is chosen as the winner for Stone Yard Devotion.
The Australian novelist’s novel tells the story of a middle-aged woman who leaves Sydney to start a quieter life in a small religious town in the Outback. It explores themes of grief, forgiveness, and female friendship.
A Booker Prize judge stated Wood’s novel was chosen as it is “…set in a claustrophobic environment and reveals the vastness of human minds: the juxtaposition is so artfully done that a reader feels trusted by the author to be an intellectual partner in this exchange, rather than a passive recipient of stories and messages.”
Another strong contender for the prestigious literary award is Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake.
The US author introduces readers to American spy Sadie Smith, who infiltrates an eco-activist group in rural France.
The book was reportedly selected by judges as “It’s quite something to wrap a thought-provoking novel of ideas into a page-turning spy thriller, and to achieve a narrative voice that is so audaciously confident – and then subtly undercut it. This is a political novel on many levels: it includes radical leftists, utopianists, a reclusive guru obsessed with Neanderthals, the shadowy forces of ruthless capitalism.”
However, any of the shortlisted nominees could receive the literary prize, and the winner will be announced on November 12, 2024, at Old Billingsgate in London, England.