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Booker prize 2026: ask our books team anything about this year’s contenders

This year’s shortlist for the Booker prize was announced last night. Our books editors will be logging on at 1pm to discuss this year’s nominees, from previous winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart to debut novelist Rebecca Perry. Post your questions or discussion points now Sign in or sign up For today’s reader Q&A we’ll be discussing the newly announced shortlist for the 2026 Booker prize which was revealed last night at a discussion at London’s Southbank centre featuring this year’s judging panel : Jarvis Cocker, Mary Beard, Patricia Lockwood, Raymond Antrobus and the Guardian’s own Rebecca Liu . The panel’s final six selections for 2026 are: Continue reading...

The Guardian•Guardian moderators (now); Justine Jordan, Charlotte Northedge and Liese Spencer (from 1pm)8h ago

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Marlon James and Douglas Stuart among 6 authors shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize

The annual U.K. prize program honours the best novel written in English from anywhere in the world.

CBC News•Talia Kliot19h ago

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Booker Prize judges reveal shortlisted novels after selection 'tussle'

Past Booker winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are among the nominees for this year's award.

BBC21h ago

Previous winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart shortlisted for Booker prize

The two authors are in the running for the £50,000 award alongside a Pulitzer winner, a science fiction legend, a comic writer and a debut novelist • Booker judge Mary Beard on this year’s shortlist This year’s Booker prize shortlist features some very familiar names – previous winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are in the running once more, along with Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Strout and prominent British speculative fiction writer M John Harrison. Novelist and poet Luke Kennard and debut novelist Rebecca Perry are also in contention for the £50,000 prize, the winner of which will be announced on Monday 9 November. James, the Jamaican writer who took home the prize in 2015 for A Brief History of Seven Killings, was shortlisted this time for The Disappearers . Set in Aids-era Jamaica, the novel centres around an attack on a group of queer men rehearsing John Herbert’s prison-set play Fortune and Men’s Eyes. Coming in at 640 pages, it’s the longest on the list. Continue reading...

The Guardian•Ella Creamer21h ago

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