{"id":32111,"date":"2025-07-29T15:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32111\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:33:09","slug":"two-canadian-authors-nominated-for-booker-prize-as-former-winner-kiran-desai-makes-long-awaited-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32111\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Canadian authors nominated for Booker Prize as former winner Kiran Desai makes long-awaited return"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Indian author Kiran Desai won the Booker in 2006 with her first novel, The Inheritance of Loss.Yuki Iwamura\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Indian author Kiran Desai, who won the Booker Prize and then didn\u2019t publish a novel for almost two decades, is up for the award again with her long-awaited follow-up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny,\u201d the 677-page tale of two young Indians making their way in the United States, is one of 13 books announced Tuesday as semifinalists for the prestigious 50,000-pound ($67,000) prize. The contenders include authors from nine countries on four continents.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Desai\u2019s first novel since \u201cThe Inheritance of Loss,\u201d which won the Booker in 2006.<\/p>\n

Two previous finalists are up for the prize again: U.K. writer Andrew Miller, for \u201cThe Land in Winter,\u201d and Canadian-born writer David Szalay for \u201cFlesh.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tash Aw, who has been a semifinalist twice before, will be the first Malaysian winner if he takes the prize for \u201cThe South.\u201d<\/p>\n

Five of the contenders are from Britain: Miller, Szalay, Natasha Brown (\u201cUniversality\u201d), Jonathan Buckley (\u201cOne Boat\u201d) and Benjamin Wood (\u201cSeascraper\u201d).<\/p>\n

Books by U.S. writers in the running include Susan Choi\u2019s \u201cFlashlight,\u201d Katie Kitamura\u2019s \u201cAudition\u201d and Ben Markovits\u2019 \u201cThe Rest of Our Lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also on the list are \u201cMisinterpretation\u201d by Albanian-American Ledia Xhoga, \u201cLove Forms\u201d by Trinidad\u2019s Claire Adam, and \u201cEndling,\u201d a debut novel by Canadian-Ukrainian opera librettist Maria Reva.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 13 longlisted novels bring the reader to Hungary, Albania, the north of England, Malaysia, Ukraine, Korea, London, New York, Trinidad and Greece, India and the West Country,\u201d said Irish novelist Roddy Doyle, chair of a five-member judging panel that includes actor Sarah Jessica Parker.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll, somehow, examine identity, individual or national, and all, I think, are gripping and excellent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1969, the Booker Prize has a reputation for transforming writers\u2019 careers and is open to novels from any country published in the U.K. and Ireland. Last year\u2019s winner was \u201cOrbital,\u201d by British writer Samantha Harvey.<\/p>\n

A list of six finalists will be announced Sept. 23, and this year\u2019s winner will be crowned on Nov. 10 at a ceremony in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Indian author Kiran Desai won the Booker in 2006 with her first novel,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[901,888,902,353,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,75,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-32111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-books","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-entertainment","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}