Several previous Booker Prize winners, including Marlon James and Douglas Stuart, are shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, with the winner set to be announced on Monday, 9 November. The shortlist also includes US author Elizabeth Strout and other writers from different genres.
Across outlets, the focus remains on familiar names returning for another shot at the award’s £50,000 prize. The Guardian adds further detail on the wider shortlist and notes that this year’s list features authors beyond the two former winners, alongside category-spanning work such as speculative fiction, poetry, and debut novels. It also reports that James is shortlisted for his novel The Disappearers, describing the book’s setting in AIDS-era Jamaica and its storyline involving an attack on a group of queer men rehearsing a play. Other outlets largely summarize the key headline fact of the shortlist and the presence of the two previous winners, alongside Strout.
