Booker Prize 2025 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2025 Booker Prize has been announced.
Shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$102,449) prize are six titles:
- Flashlight (Susan Choi, Jonathan Cape)
- The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (Kiran Desai, Hamish Hamilton)
- Audition (Katie Kitamura, Fern Press)
- The Rest of Our Lives (Ben Markovits, Faber)
- The Land in Winter (Andrew Miller, Sceptre)
- Flesh (David Szalay, Jonathan Cape).
This shortlist was chosen from a total of 153 entries and a longlist of 13 titles announced late July. Writing on shared themes in the works, the prize organisation noted that shortlisted titles ‘feature often rootless characters far from the places they once called home’.
Previous winner Kiran Desai remains in the running for the prize again after 19 years, having won the 2006 Booker for An Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton); while Andrew Miller and David Szalay have also been previously shortlisted, with the remaining three authors appearing on the shortlist for the first time. No debut authors appear on the 2025 shortlist.
Booker Prize 2025 chair of judges Roddy Doyle said of the shortlist, ‘Their authors are in total command of their own store of English, their own rhythm, their own expertise; they have each crafted a novel that no one else could have written.
‘And all of the books, in six different and very fresh ways, find their stories in the examination of the individual trying to live with – to love, to seek attention from, to cope with, to understand, to keep at bay, to tolerate, to escape from – other people.’
The winner is set to be announced on 10 November at a ceremony in London.
Samantha Harvey won the 2024 Booker Prize for Orbital (Vintage).
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