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2020 Booker Prize
The 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on 19 November 2020. The Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 27 July, and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 15 September. The Prize was awarded to Douglas Stuart for his debut novel, ''Shuggie Bain'', receiving £50,000. Stuart is the second Scottish author to win the Booker Prize, after it was awarded to James Kelman for ''How Late It Was, How Late'' in 1994. The ceremony was hosted by John Wilson at the Roundhouse in Central London, and broadcast by the BBC. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the shortlisted authors and guest speakers appeared virtually from their respective homes. Judging panel *Margaret Busby *Lee Child *Lemn Sissay *Sameer Rahim * Emily Wilson Nominees Shortlist Longlist The Booker Prize. See also * |
Douglas Stuart (2021)
Douglas Stuart may refer to: * Douglas Stuart (rower) (1885–1969), British rower * R. Douglas Stuart (1886–1975), United States Ambassador to Canada (1953–1956) * R. Douglas Stuart Jr. (1916–2014), founder of the America First Committee, CEO of Quaker Oats, and United States Ambassador to Norway (1984–1989) * Douglas Stuart, 20th Earl of Moray (1928–2011), British peer * Douglas G. Stuart (1931–2019), professor of physiology at the University of Arizona * Douglas Stuart (biblical scholar) (born 1943), professor of the Old Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary * Douglas Stuart (writer) Douglas Stuart (born 31 May 1976) is a Scottish-American writer and fashion designer. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he studied at the Scottish College of Textiles and at London's Royal College of Art, before moving at the age of 24 to New York City ... (born 1976), Scottish-American writer See also * Douglas Stewart (other) * {{hndis, Stuart, Douglas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay FRSL (born 21 May 1967) is a British author and broadcaster. Sissay was the official poet of the 2012 London Olympics, has been chancellor of the University of Manchester since 2015, and joined the Foundling Museum's board of trustees two years later, having previously been appointed one of the museum's fellows. He was awarded the 2019 PEN Pinter Prize. He has written a number of books and plays. Early life Sissay's mother, Yemarshet Sissay, arrived in Britain from Ethiopia in 1966. Pregnant at the time, she was sent from Bracknell to a home for unwed mothers in Lancashire to give birth. His birth father, Giddey Estifanos, was a pilot for Ethiopian Airlines, who later passed away in a plane crash in 1972. Sissay was born in Billinge Hospital, near Wigan, Lancashire, in 1967. Norman Goldthorpe, a social worker assigned to his mother by Wigan Social Services, found foster parents for Sissay while his mother returned to Bracknell to finish her studies. Goldthorpe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamish Hamilton
Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton (''Hamish'' is the vocative form of the Gaelic Seumas eaning James ''James'' the English form – which was also his given name, and ''Jamie'' the diminutive form). Jamie Hamilton was often referred to as ''Hamish Hamilton''. The Hamish Hamilton imprint is now part of the Penguin Random House group. History and current publishing Hamish Hamilton Limited originally specialized in fiction, and was responsible for publishing a number of American authors in the United Kingdom, including Nigel Balchin (including pseudonym: Mark Spade), Raymond Chandler, James Thurber, J.D. Salinger, E. B. White and Truman Capote. In 1939 Hamish Hamilton Law and Hamish Hamilton Medical were started but closed during the war. Hamish Hamilton was established in the literary district of Bloomsbury and went on to publish many promising British and American authors, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burnt Sugar (novel)
''Girl in White Cotton'' is the debut novel by Avni Doshi, an American writer of Indian origin. Doshi wrote the novel over the course of seven years. It tells the story of a troubled mother-daughter relationship in Pune, India. The novel was first published in India in August 2019. It was published in the United Kingdom under the title ''Burnt Sugar'' in July 2020. The novel was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. Background The novel was written by Doshi over the course of seven years. In 2012, while working as a curator and art writer in Mumbai, Doshi wrote her first draft of the novel in order to meet the deadline for the Tibor Jones South Asia prize for an unpublished manuscript. She won the prize in a unanimous decision by its five judges. She began writing the novel in Pune. Doshi credits a moment while in her grandmother's flat in Pune when a distortion in a mirror warped her reflection, and she saw two different people in her face. The same day, she wrote what woul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avni Doshi
Avni Doshi (born 1982) is an American novelist currently based in Dubai. She was born in New Jersey to immigrants from India. She received a BA in Art History from Barnard College in New York, and a master's degree in History of Art from University College London. Her debut novel, '' Girl in White Cotton'', was published in India in 2019. In 2020, it was published in the United Kingdom under the title ''Burnt Sugar''. The novel was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. Personal life Doshi grew up in New Jersey's Fort Lee but often spent the winter in Pune Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ..., India, where her mother's family lived. She lived in India for seven years during her mid-twenties, where she worked as a curator in various art galleries (such as Latitude 28 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faber & Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel Beckett, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Milan Kundera, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Founded in 1929, in 2006 the company was named the KPMG Publisher of the Year. Faber and Faber Inc., formerly the American branch of the London company, was sold in 1998 to the Holtzbrinck company Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG). Faber and Faber ended the partnership with FSG in 2015 and began distributing its books directly in the United States. History Faber and Faber began as a firm in 1929, but originates in the Scientific Press, owned by Sir Maurice and Lady Gwyer. The Scientific Press derived much of its income from the weekly magazine ''The Nursing Mirror.'' The Gwyers' desire to expand into trade publishing led them to Geoffrey Fab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Mournable Body
''This Mournable Body'' is a novel by Tsitsi Dangarembga which was published by Faber and Faber on 16 January 2020. Awards * PEN Pinter Prize *Shortlisted for 2020 Booker Prize Critical reception and reviews This Mournable Body is described by Alexandra Fuller of ''The New York Times'' as "another masterpiece" and Novuyo Rosa Tshuma of ''The Guardian'' said it as "magnificent ... another classic". It has been reviewed by Kirkus Reviews, Red Pepper, The Times, The Masters Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Daily Telegraph, Literary Review, Verve, Washington Independent Review of Books, Star Tribune, Radio New Zealand, SciELO, World Literature Today, The Straits Times, The Michigan Daily, Chicago Tribune, The Irish Times, Daily Trust, The Wire, The New Yorker, Zyzzyva, Publishers Weekly and The Gazette The Gazette (stylized as the GazettE), formerly known as , is a Japanese visual kei Rock music, rock band, formed in Kanagawa Prefecture, Kanagawa in early 2002.''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 4 February 1959) is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker. Her debut novel, ''Nervous Conditions'' (1988), which was the first to be published in English by a Black woman from Zimbabwe, was named by the BBC in 2018 as one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world. She has won other literary honors. In 2022 she was convicted in a Zimbabwe court of inciting public violence, by displaying, on a public road, a placard asking for reform. In 2020, her novel ''This Mournable Body'' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Early life and education Dangarembga was born on 4 February 1959 in Mutoko, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), a small town where her parents taught at the nearby mission school. Her mother, Susan Dangarembga, was the first black woman in Southern Rhodesia to obtain a bachelor's degree, and her father, Amon, would later become a school headmaster. Dangarembga lived in England from ages of two to six while her parents pursued hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oneworld Publications
Oneworld Publications is a British independent publishing firm founded in 1986 by Novin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey originally to publish accessible non-fiction by experts and academics for the general market."About Us" Oneworld Publications. Based in , it later added a literary fiction list (in 2009) and both a children's list (Rock the Boat, 2015) and an upmarket crime list (Point Blank, 2016), and now publishes across a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, current affairs, popular science, religion, philosophy, and psychology, as well as literary fiction, crime fiction and suspense, and children's titles. A large proportion of Oneworld fiction across all its lists is translated. Among the writers on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Wilderness
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Cook
Diane Marie Cook is an American writer currently based in New York. Her debut novel, ''The New Wilderness'' (2020), was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. Biography and career After studying and writing fiction at university, Cook attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, as a member of their first Radio cohort in 2000. She began her radio career as an intern, then producer at ''This American Life''. She attended Columbia University for her MFA and a few years later published her first book, the short-story collection ''Man V. Nature''. It was a finalist for the 2015 Guardian First Book Award, the Believer Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her debut novel, ''The New Wilderness'' (2020), was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. Cook's writing has appeared in '' Harper’s'', ''Tin House'', ''Granta'', and other publications, and her stories have been included in the anthologies ''Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan Macmillan
Pan Books is a publishing imprint (trade name), imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the United Kingdom, British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany. Pan Books began as an independent publisher, established in 1944 by Alan Bott, previously known for his memoirs of his experiences as a flying ace in the First World War. The Pan Books logo, showing the ancient Greek god Pan (god), Pan playing pan-pipes, was designed by Mervyn Peake. A few years after it was founded, Pan Books was bought out by a consortium of several publishing houses, including Macmillan, William Collins, Sons, Collins, Heinemann (publisher)#Heinemann UK history, Heinemann, and, briefly, Hodder & Stoughton. It became wholly owned by Macmillan in 1987. Pan specialised in publishing paperback fiction and, along with Penguin Books, was one of the first popular publishers of this format in the UK. Many popular authors saw their works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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