Veteran writers top “Booker” at the expense of new novelists

Kazuo Ishiguro, 66, received his fifth nomination for this literary award.

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This year's list of nominees for the British Booker Prize for Literature, announced by the organizers, included six novelists who had previously won these prestigious awards, including great writers such as Kazuo Ishiguro, at the expense of new pens.

British author of Japanese origin Kazuo Ishiguro (66 years) won his fifth nomination for this literary prize, which was launched in 1969, and authors of any nationality can compete for it provided that they write in English.

He won the prize in 1989 for his novel "The Remains of the Day", but he was nominated for this award also in 1986 for his novel "An Artist from the Floating World" and in 2000 for "One Way" Were Orphins” (When We Were Orphans), and 2005 for “Never Let Me Go” (Never Let Me Go).

The 2017 Nobel Prize-winning writer was nominated this time for his eighth novel, Clara and the Sun, which offers an "innocent, selfless vision of the peculiar behavior of human beings obsessed and wounded by power, position and fear."

The list included five other novelists who had previously been nominated for this award: Damon Galgot for "The Promise" (The Promise), Mary Lawson for "A Town Cald Solis" (A Town Named Solis), and Richard Powers for "Biowilderment" (The Perplexity). and Sunjeev Sahuta for “China Rum.”

In all, 13 works were selected by a jury of five judges from among 158 novels published in the UK or Ireland between October 1, 2020 and September 30, 2021.

Of these 13 names, six women and two writers are nominated for their first novel, a lower number compared to the previous year's edition, which saw eight new writers nominated.

The names of the six finalists will be announced on September 14, before the winner is chosen on November 3, with a financial reward of 50,000 pounds ($69,000).

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