The 2020 International Booker Prize - Winner ceremony

2020 Booker Prize, Shortlist watch party

More about the 2020 Booker Prize

 

With just under a month to go until the announcement of The 2020 Booker Prize winner, we were excited to launch our celebration of the shortlist on Monday, starting with author interviews and readings from Diane Cook, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Avni Doshi and Maaza Mengiste. We caught up with each author to talk about their shortlisted novel and hear them read short extract, all filmed remotely over Zoom.  Watch: Diane Cook here. Tsitsi Dangarembga here.  Avni Doshi here. Maaza Mengiste here. The celebration continues on our social channels into the weekend, with Douglas Stuart today and Brandon Taylor on Saturday.

The weekend, a short story by Fay Weldon

 About Fay Weldon, writer of 31 novels, many novellas and short stories, plays, television series etc

The weekend, a short story: 

1The text  2 audio mp3  3 activities 

4 supplementary material  5 answer key

The Booker Prize Shortlist

 Key Dates for the Booker prize 2020

The 2020 shortlist is:

• The New Wilderness by Diane Cook (Oneworld Publications)
• This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Faber & Faber)
• Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin)
• The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (Canongate Books)
• Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador, Pan Macmillan)
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Originals, Daunt Books Publishing)