2020 Booker Prize

The 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction is the current award of the annual prize for literature covering UK, Irish, American and Commonwealth authors.[1]

Judging panel

Nominees (shortlist)

Nominees (longlist)[2]
Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher
Diane Cook The New Wilderness United States Oneworld Publications
Tsitsi Dangarembga This Mournable Body Zimbabwe Faber & Faber
Avni Doshi Burnt Sugar United States Hamish Hamilton / Penguin Random House
Gabriel Krauze Who They Was United Kingdom 4th Estate HarperCollins
Hilary Mantel The Mirror and the Light Novel United Kingdom 4th Estate HarperCollins
Colum McCann Apeirogon Novel Ireland / United States Bloomsbury Publishing
Maaza Mengiste The Shadow King Ethiopia / United States Canongate Books
Kiley Reid Such a Fun Age United States Bloomsbury Circus / Bloomsbury Publishing
Brandon Taylor Real Life Novel United States Originals // Daunt Books Publishing
Anne Tyler Redhead by the Side of the Road Novel United States Chatto & Windus / Vintage
Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain United Kingdom/United States Picador Pan Macmillan
Sophie Ward Love and Other Thought Experiments United Kingdom Corsair, Little, Brown
C Pam Zhang How Much of These Hills is Gold United States Virago, Little, Brown
gollark: Pascal's Wager basically goes "if no god, belief doesn't have costs anyway (wrong, since it takes time and may make your thinking more irrational); if god, non-belief means infinite badness (hell), belief means infinite goodness (heaven), so rationally you should believe".
gollark: There *may* be a god of some kind who rewards you for believing in them and their afterlife and such, but there is an infinity of possible gods including ones like "allocates you to heaven or hell entirely at random", "entirely indistinguishable from no god", "sends you to hell if you believe in the *other* god", "incomprehensible eldritch abomination" or "literal bees".
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gollark: Whether there *is*... some supernatural thing after death, such as an afterlife... is pretty much independent of whether you believe it or not, and while the exact form of that *may* depend on your beliefs about it, that makes a LOT of presumptions about god or who/what created the system which are not supported.

See also

References
  1. Hilary Mantel up for third Booker prize as 2020 longlist announced The Guardian
  2. The 2020 Longlist The Booker Prize
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