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Authors shortlisted from the Long List- Booker Prize 2019
1.Canadian author Margaret Atwood, 79 – “The Testaments” (The original was set in a totalitarian state called Gilead where women are subjugated and enslaved by an oppressive patriarchal society).
2. US author Lucy Ellmann, 62 – “Ducks, Newburyport“(Its narrator is an Ohio housewife who reflects on her past, her family and her country while latticing cherry pies).
3. Anglo-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo, 60- “Girl, Woman, Other” (Described as a “fusion fiction” novel, follows the lives of 12 characters, most of whom are black, British and female).
4. Nigerian author Chigozie Obioma, 39 – “An Orchestra of Minorities” (Story of a young Nigerian chicken farmer whose love for a woman drives him to become an African migrant in Europe).
5. Indian author Sir Salman Rushdie, 72 – “Quichotte” (Tales of an ageing travelling salesman who drives across America to prove himself worthy of a TV star’s hand).
6. British-Turkish author Elif Shafak, 47 – “10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World” (This Strange World is made up of the recollections of a sex worker who has been left for dead in a rubbish bin).
13 Authors long listed for Booker Prize 2019:
1. Margaret Atwood
2. Kevin Barry – Night Boat To Tangier
3. Oyinkan Braithwaite – My Sister, The Serial Killer
4. Lucy Ellmann – Ducks, Newburyport
5. Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
6. John Lanchester – The Wall
7. Deborah Levy – The Man Who Saw Everything
8. Valeria Luiselli – Lost Children Archive
9. Chigozie Obioma – An Orchestra Of Minorities
10. Max Porter – Lanny
11. Salman Rushdie – Quichotte
12. Elif Shafak – 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World
13. Jeanette Winterson – Frankissstein
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