Wood shortlisted for 2024 Booker Prize
Australian author Charlotte Wood has been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Stone Yard Devotional (A&U).
The six books shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$97,828) prize are:
- Creation Lake (Rachel Kushner, Jonathan Cape)
- Held (Anne Michaels, Bloomsbury)
- James (Percival Everett, Mantle)
- Orbital (Samantha Harvey, Vintage)
- The Safekeep (Yael van der Wouden, Viking)
- Stone Yard Devotional (Charlotte Wood, A&U).
Wood is the first Australian to be shortlisted for the prize in 10 years, since 2014, when Richard Flanagan became the third Australian author to win the prize, with his book The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Penguin).
The judging panel said of Stone Yard Devotional: ‘The past, in the form of the returning bones of an old acquaintance, comes knocking at [the protagonist’s] door; the present, in the forms of a global pandemic and a local plague of mice and rats, demands her attention. The novel thrilled and chilled the judges.’
Shortlisted books were chosen from a longlist of 13 titles by a panel chaired by artist and author Edmund de Waal, with judges including novelist Sara Collins, Guardian UK fiction editor Justine Jordan, writer and professor Yiyun Li, and musician and producer Nitin Sawhney.
The 2024 winner will be announced on 12 November at a ceremony to be held in London and livestreamed. Other shortlisted authors will each receive £2500 ($A4893).
More information is available on the Booker Prize website.
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