{"id":32292,"date":"2025-07-29T17:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32292\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:18:07","slug":"most-global-booker-prize-longlist-in-a-decade-features-kiran-desai-and-tash-aw-booker-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32292\/","title":{"rendered":"Most global Booker prize longlist in a decade features Kiran Desai and Tash Aw | Booker prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiran Desai, Tash Aw and David Szalay<\/a> are among the authors nominated for the 2025 Booker prize, on a longlist that features writers from nine different nationalities \u2013 the most global list for a decade.<\/p>\n

The judging panel, which this year includes Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker alongside Ay\u1ecd\u0300b\u00e1mi Ad\u00e9b\u00e1y\u1ecd\u0300 and chair of judges Roddy Doyle, also chose books by Katie Kitamura, Andrew Miller<\/a>, Ben Markovits and Jonathan Buckley as part of their \u201cBooker dozen\u201d longlist of 13 titles.<\/p>\n

Susan Choi, Natasha Brown and Benjamin Wood were also named as longlistees.<\/p>\n

Desai makes the longlist with her first book since her Booker prize-winning 2006 novel The Inheritance of Loss. Set to be published in September, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny<\/a> took almost 20 years to write, and at 667 pages is the longest title on the list. Kiran\u2019s mother, Anita Desai, has previously been shortlisted for the Booker three times.<\/p>\n

Quick GuideThe Booker prize 2025 longlistShow<\/p>\n

Love Forms<\/a> by Claire Adam (Faber)<\/p>\n

The South<\/a> by Tash Aw (4th Estate)<\/p>\n

Universality<\/a> by Natasha Brown (Faber)<\/p>\n

One Boat by Jonathan Buckley (Fitzcarraldo Editions)<\/p>\n

Flashlight<\/a> by Susan Choi (Jonathan Cape)<\/p>\n

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Hamish Hamilton)<\/p>\n

Audition<\/a> by Katie Kitamura (Fern Press)<\/p>\n

The Rest of Our Lives<\/a> by Ben Markovits (Faber)<\/p>\n

The Land in Winter<\/a> by Andrew Miller (Sceptre)<\/p>\n

Endling<\/a> by Maria Reva (Virago)<\/p>\n

Flesh<\/a> by David Szalay (Jonathan Cape)<\/p>\n

Seascraper by Benjamin Wood (Viking)<\/p>\n

Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga (Daunt Books Originals)<\/p>\n

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The chosen books \u201care all alive with great characters and narrative surprises\u201d, said Doyle. \u201cAll, somehow, examine identity, individual or national, and all, I think, are gripping and excellent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aw is longlisted for the third time for his latest book The South<\/a>. If he takes home the \u00a350,000 award in November, he will become the first Malaysian to win the prize.<\/p>\n

Szalay, previously shortlisted in 2016 for All That Man Is, was this time put forward for Flesh<\/a>, which traces the story of one man, Istv\u00e1n, from his teens to midlife. Another past shortlistee, Miller \u2013 nominated in 2001 for Oxygen \u2013 made this year\u2019s list for The Land in Winter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions, which has had multiple titles nominated for the International Booker prize for translated fiction, earned its first Booker longlisting this year with Buckley\u2019s 13th novel One Boat<\/a> \u2013 which is the slimmest title on the list, coming in at 168 pages.<\/p>\n

Another independent publisher, Faber, has three titles nominated this year: Brown\u2019s Universality<\/a>, Markovits\u2019 The Rest of Our Lives<\/a>, and Claire Adam\u2019s Love Forms<\/a>. Penguin imprints see the highest number of titles, with five making the list.<\/p>\n

Just two debuts appear on the 2025 longlist: Misinterpretation<\/a> by Ledia Xhoga and Endling<\/a> by Maria Reva, which follows three women and an endangered snail travelling in a mobile lab through contemporary Ukraine.<\/p>\n

It is \u201cstriking that most of the longlisted writers have already had sustained careers\u201d, said Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation.<\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s list also features \u201cthe highest number of different nationalities we\u2019ve seen on a Booker prize longlist for a decade\u201d, yet \u201cBritish writers are strongly represented too\u201d, she added. Five British writers made this year\u2019s longlist: Brown, Buckley, Miller, Szalay \u2013 who is Hungarian-British \u2013 and Benjamin Wood for Seascraper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Four American writers made the cut: Choi for her latest novel Flashlight<\/a> and Kitamura for Audition<\/a> along with Xhoga and Markovits. No Irish writers appear on this year\u2019s list, despite having strong representation in recent years.<\/p>\n

Doyle said that whittling down the nominations \u201cat times\u201d was \u201cagony\u201d. 153 books were submitted, all written in English and published in the UK or Ireland between 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025.<\/p>\n

Joining Doyle, Parker and Ad\u00e9b\u00e1y\u1ecd\u0300 on this year\u2019s panel is the novelist Kiley Reid as well as the writer and critic Chris Power.<\/p>\n

Parker follows other actors who have judged the prize in recent years, including Adjoa Andoh and Robert Webb. When the panel was announced in December<\/a>, Wood said that in recent months she had \u201cenjoyed sharing book recommendations with Sarah Jessica, who has passionately supported contemporary fiction for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2016, Parker began serving as editorial director at SJP for Hogarth, an imprint of Penguin, before launching her own imprint, SJP Lit, in partnership with independent publisher Zando in 2023. She also shares book recommendations on her Instagram account.<\/p>\n

The shortlist will be announced at the Southbank Centre\u2019s Royal Festival Hall on Tuesday 23 September, with the winner revealed on Monday 10 November.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s Booker prize was won by Samantha Harvey<\/a> for her novel Orbital. Other recent winners include Paul Lynch, Shehan Karunatilaka, Damon Galgut and Douglas Stuart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiran Desai, Tash Aw and David Szalay are among the authors nominated for the 2025 Booker prize, on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-32292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32292","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=32292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}