Women Judge Shortlist for the International Booker Prize

LONDON — Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk is among five women writers shortlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize, and is arguably the world’s top prize for fiction translated into English. Tokarczuk was nominated for “Books of Jacob” with translator Jennifer Croft just four years after the couple. won the same award for “Flights”. …

A Booker Prize Winner Gets First Love and — Just Maybe — Hope

YOUNG MUNGO by Douglas Stuart Neighborhoods are new to them as 15-year-old Mungo and his brother Hamish drive through central Glasgow in a car paid to steal from central Glasgow; they have barely crossed the confines of a few narrow streets. Like “Shuggie Bain”, Stuart’s 2020 Booker Prize-winning debut novel, “Young Mungo” has a lived-in …

Keri Hulme, New Zealand’s First Booker Prize Winner, has died at the age of 74.

After attending North New Brighton Primary and Aranui High School in Christchurch, Ms. Hulme worked for a season in the Tasman area collecting hops and tobacco before studying law at the University of Canterbury for a short time. He then took part-time jobs around the country before working at the post office in the rural …

‘Big Circle’, ‘Astonishment’ Among Booker Prize Finalists

LONDON — Patricia Lockwood, Richard Powers and Maggie Shipstead are among six novelists nominated this year for the Booker Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards. Powers is a finalist in “Bewilderment,” her novel about a widowed astrobiologist struggling to care for her son; for the shipyard”great apartment”, an epic about a woman …

NBA Finals: Booker, Suns Leader vs. Bucks in Game 2

PHOENIX — Devin Booker grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan as a devoted Detroit Pistons fan. Ben locked onto Wallace’s energy, Chauncey Billups’ determination, Rasheed Wallace’s perseverance, and Tayshaun Prince’s versatility. Most notably, Booker swept away YouTube clips of Richard Hamilton, attempting to turn Hamilton’s picturesque shooting form into muscle memory. The Pistons of Booker’s …