Prestigious Booker Prize scooped by Scottish debut novelist Douglas Stuart
Shuggie Bain is based on Stuart’s childhood in Glasgow in the 1980s.
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Shuggie Bain is based on Stuart’s childhood in Glasgow in the 1980s.
McCann was nominated for his novel Apeirogon.
Atwood has been awarded for The Testaments and Evaristo has been awarded for Girl, Woman, Other.
Irish author Kevin Barry had made the longlist for the 2019 awards. However, he did not make the shortlist.
Barry is longlisted for his novel Night Boat to Tangier.
Sally Rooney, Donal Ryan and Anna Burns will all compete for the award.
And it looks like it’s going to be pretty special.
Richard Flanagan is the third Australian to win the prestigious award.
The supermarket chain have made a sly reference to one of the United legend’s most famous quotes.
The 28-year-old New Zealander won the fiction award for her 832-page murder mystery The Luminaries.
This year’s exciting longlist features 13 authors from across the world – including three Irish writers.
Banville, 67, will receive the award and the €25,000 prize money at a ceremony in Salzburg on July 25.
Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize for her book Bring Up the Bodies, beating off competition from Will Self.
After his fourth time on the shortlist, British author Julian Barnes has won the Man Booker Prizer – and dissed Finnegan’s Wake in his acceptance speech.
Gallery: Check out the final six in the running for this year’s Man Booker.
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Irish author makes list of 13 authors vying for prestigious literary prize for his novel On Canaan’s Side.
Spy specialist Le Carré says he doesn’t want the international Booker prize, but the judges say he can’t opt out.