Booker Prize 2024 winnaar longlist en shortlist. Welk boek wint de Booker Prize 2024? Wat zijn de romans die op de shortlist van de prestigieuze prijs staan? Welke romans zijn door de jury gekozen voor de longlist van de Booker Prize 2024?
Booker Prize 2024 winnaar longlist en shortlist
Dit is de overzichtspagina van de meest prestigieuze literaire prijs van Engeland, The Booker Prize, voor de beste Engelstalige roman die verschijnen in het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Ierland tussen 1 oktober 2023 en 30 september 2024. Zowel de winnaar, als de shortlist en de longlist zijn opgenomen. Links verwijzen naar uitgebreide informatie over de romans en bestelmogelijkheden.
Winnaar Booker Prize 2024
Boeken op de shortlist
Op maandag 16 september is de shortlist van de Booker Prize 2024 bekend gemaakt. Er zijn door de jury zes boeken gekozen waaronder ook de Engelstalige roman The Safekeep van de Nederlandse schrijfster Yael van der Wouden.
Percival Everett (Verenigde Staten) – James
Amerikaanse slavernijroman
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond…lees verder >
Samatha Harvey (Engeland) – Orbital
Engelse roman
Life on our planet as you’ve never seen it before: in this spellbinding and uplifting novel six astronauts rotate in the International Space Station. They are there to do vital work, but slowly they begin to wonder: what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity? Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents, and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day…lees verder >
Rachel Kushner (Verenigde Staten) – Creation Lake
Amerikaanse roman
Nederlandse vertaling: Creation Lake
Sadie Smith – a thirty-four-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics and bold opinions – is sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France. Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists influenced by the beliefs of an enigmatic elder, Bruno Lacombe, who has rejected civilisation, lives in a Neanderthal cave, and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism…lees verder >
Anne Michaels (Canada) – Held
Canadese historische roman
1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory – a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast – as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river – alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds…lees verder >
Yael van der Wouden (Nederland) – The Safekeep
Engelstalige Nederlandse roman
Nederlandse vertaling: De bewaring
It’s 15 years since the Second World War and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the conflict is well and truly over. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel’s life is as it should be: led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel’s doorstep-as a guest, there to stay for the season…lees verder >
Charlotte Wood (Australië) – Stone Yard Devotional
Australische roman
Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Australian outback. She doesn’t believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident…lees verder >
Longlist overzicht romans en auteurs
Op dinsdag 30 juli 2024 is de lijst met romans, schrijvers en schrijfsters die door de jury gekozen zijn voor de longlist, bekend gemaakt.
Colin Barrett (Ierland) – Wild Houses
Ierse roman
As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time drug-dealer, Cillian English, and County Mayo’s enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum…lees verder >
Rita Bullwinkel (Verenigde Staten) – Headshot
Amerikaanse roman
An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A familys unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country…lees verder >
Percival Everett (Verenigde Staten) – James
Amerikaanse slavernijroman
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond…lees verder >
Samatha Harvey (Engeland) – Orbital
Engelse roman
Life on our planet as you’ve never seen it before: in this spellbinding and uplifting novel six astronauts rotate in the International Space Station. They are there to do vital work, but slowly they begin to wonder: what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity? Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents, and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day…lees verder >
Rachel Kushner (Verenigde Staten) – Creation Lake
Amerikaanse roman
Nederlandse vertaling: Creation Lake
Sadie Smith – a thirty-four-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics and bold opinions – is sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France. Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists influenced by the beliefs of an enigmatic elder, Bruno Lacombe, who has rejected civilisation, lives in a Neanderthal cave, and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism…lees verder >
Hisham Matar (Verenigde Staten) – My Friends
Amerikaanse roman
Nederlandse vertaling: Vrienden
One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.There, thrust into an open society that is miles away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change…lees verder >
Claire Messud (Verenigde Staten) – This Strange Eventful History
Amerikaanse roman
Nederlandse vertaling: Deze vreemde bewogen geschiedenis
June 1940. As Paris falls to the Germans, Gaston Cassar – honorable servant of France, devoted husband and father, currently posted as naval attache in Salonica – bids farewell to his beloved wife, aunt and children, placing his faith in God that they will be reunited after the war. But escaping the violence of that cataclysm is not the same as emerging unscathed. The family will never again be whole. A work of breathtaking historical sweep and vivid psychological intimacy…lees verder >
Anne Michaels (Canada) – Held
Canadese historische roman
1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory – a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast – as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river – alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds…lees verder >
Tommy Orange (Verenigde Staten) – Wandering Stars
Amerikaanse historische roman
Nederlandse vertaling: Dwalende sterren
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical 
prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines…lees verder >
Sarah Perry (Engeland) – Enlightenment
Engelse roman
Thomas and Grace are fellow worshippers at the Baptist chapel in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits – torn between their commitment to religion and their desire for more. But their friendship is threatened by the arrival of love…lees verder >
Richard Powers (Verenigde Staten) – Playground
Amerikaanse roman
Nederlandse vertaling: Vrij spel
Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough…lees verder >
Yael van der Wouden (Nederland) – The Safekeep
Engelstalige Nederlandse roman
Nederlandse vertaling: De bewaring
It’s 15 years since the Second World War and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the conflict is well and truly over. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel’s life is as it should be: led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel’s doorstep-as a guest, there to stay for the season…lees verder >
Charlotte Wood (Australië) – Stone Yard Devotional
Australische roman
Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Australian outback. She doesn’t believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident…lees verder >