The Canadian author David Szalay is among the six preselected authors for the 2025 Booker Prize.
The £ 50,000 prize (approximately $ 92,000 CDN) recognizes annually the best original novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom
Szalay is preselected for his novel Meat, What follows István, 15, whose matter with a married woman sends her life out of control.
As István grows, he continues to live a life of recklessness, achieving all his wishes for a while, until they threaten to undo it completely.
Szary’s novel That whole man is He was also preselected for the Booker Prize in 2016 and won the Gordon Burn prize that same year. Your other books include Turbulence, and London and the Southeastwhich won the Betty Traps award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
This year’s Booker Award is chaired by Irish novelist Roddy Doyle, who won the Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke, ha,.
Completing the jury is the Nigerian novelist Ayobami Adebayo, the British station and literary critic Chris Power, the American writer Kiley Reid and the American actor Sarah Jessica Parker, better known for her role as Carrie in Sex and city.
“Reading the 13 books on the long list was a great pleasure; I was feeling the emotion, the joy I felt since I began to read books without photos in them 60 years ago,” Doyle wrote in a press release. “But when controlling the 13 to six, there was sadness, even the fault for losing books we love. But also satisfaction and gratitude: we had chosen six great novels.”
“I think the six have two great things in common. Their authors are in total the command of their own English store, their own rhythm, their own experience; each one has created a novel that no one else could have written.”
“And all the books, in six different and very fresh ways, find their stories in the examination of the individual who tries to live with, love, seek attention, to face, understand, keep at bay, tolerate, escape from other people. In other words, all are bright written and all are brilliantly human.”
The complete short list is as follows:
- Flash By Susan Choi
- Sonia’s loneliness and sunny By Kiran Desai
- Hearing By Katie Kitamura
- The rest of our lives By Ben Markovits
- Earth in winter By Andrew Miller
- Meat By David Szalay
Many of the preselected books are available in accessible formats on the Center for Equitable Library Access website.
Pre -selected writers will receive £ 2,500 (approximately $ 4,600 CDN) and a specially linked copy of their book.
The 2025 winner will be announced at an awards ceremony on Monday, November 10 at Old Billingsgate in London.
Since 2013, the authors of any nationality have been eligible for the Booker Prize. The previous Canadian winners include Margaret Atwood, who shared the 2019 award with the British novelist Bernardine Evaristo. Atwood was recognized by his novel The willsand Evaristo for his novel Girl, woman, another. They divided the prize money evenly.
Two other Canadians have won the award since its inception in 1969: Michael Ondaatje in 1992 for The English patient and Yann Martel in 2002 for Pi life.
Last year’s winner was the British author Samantha Harvey for her novel Orbital.
