The Booker Prize 2020

Taal: nld
Categorie: Literatuur

Novelist and activist Kit de Waal follows the most prestigious literary award in the English-speaking world - the Booker Prize. In the build-up to the announcement of this year's winner, we meet the six authors creating some of the most exciting fiction from across the world and discover the novels in contention for the prize, which are flying off the shelves all over the country. The 2020 shortlist offers an exciting variety of global stories, featuring the most diverse mix of authors the Booker has ever seen, as well as an unusual number of debuts. Kit - a vocal campaigner for inclusivity in publishing - also examines the wider landscape of the publishing industry in the wake of the unprecedented global events of 2020.