A prize that decides one addition to a ton of bookshelves every year, I always feel a tinge of ‘laziness’ when I get one wrong as I clearly haven’t done enough spadework. You know these will appear at some point! Though maybe not the 2021 International longlist nominees…
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International Booker Prize – Done 2021 longlist, winners to 2022
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Her work mainly falling in the horror genre, which Argentine author was nominated for the 2021 International Booker Prize for the short story collection “The Dangers of Smoking in Bed”, losing to David Diop’s “At Night All Blood is Black”? Other works include “Things We Lost in the Fire” and “Chicos Que Vuelvan”.
MARIANA ENRIQUEZ
The book set on a spacecraft and featuring interactions between a human and android crew, which Danish author was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2021 for “The Employees”? Initially she published poetry and her 2015 novel “Celestine” was a story about a teacher and a ghost.
OLGA RAVN
His first book of stories “La Antarctica empieza aqui” gaining critical acclaim, which Chilean author born in Rotterdam was nominated for the 2021 International Booker Prize for “When We Cease to Understand the World”? Difficult to pigeonhole, it discusses scientific discoveries over an unusual course of essays and fiction.
BENJAMÍN LABATUT
A winner of the Andrei Bely Prize for poetry who sometimes uses the Russian narrative form of skaz in her works, which Russian was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2021 for “In Memory of Memory”, a work about – you guessed it – memory?
MARIA STEPANOVA
Winning the Prix Goncourt in 2017 with “The Order of the Day”, which French author was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2021 for “The War of the Poor”, a 16th-century account that has themes including equality?
ERIC VUILLARD
Seen as an experimental author, which female Chinese writer was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2021 for “I Live in the Slums” as well as the same award in 2019 for “Love in the New Millennium”, the former being a collection of short stories and the latter featuring constant surveillance?
CAN XUE
With cinematography provided by Oleg Mutu who had also worked on “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”, “In Bloom” won awards at a number of film festivals for which Georgian author and director, who was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2021 for “The Pear Field”?
NANA EKVTIMISHVILI
Sounding like the offspring of two outstanding Dutch footballers, which Dutch writer was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2021 for “Summer Brother”? He is also known for writing children’s books and the novel “Birk”.
JAAP ROBBEN
Responsible for the “Atlas of Remote Islands” which is brilliantly sub-titled with “Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will”, which German writer was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2021 for “An Inventory of Losses”, where one of the subjects is the demolished Palace of the Republic in Berlin?
JUDITH SCHALANSKY
Highlighting a 1949 gang rape in the Negev Desert that was not fictional, which Palestinian was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2021 for “Minor Detail”?
ADANIA SHIBLI
Although born in Prague, which writer wrote the novel “Wretchedness” in Swedish, it being nominated in 2021 for the International Booker Prize?
ANDRZEJ TICHÝ
Who is the first author to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the International Booker Prize, also being the first woman to win the latter award?
ALICE MUNRO
Only writing five novels though there is other material that can be explored, who was the second winner of the International Booker Prize, two years after Ismail Kadare became the first?
CHINUA ACHEBE
Dying in 2018, who was the first American to win the International Booker Prize in 2011, the fourth overall and second from North America?
PHILIP ROTH
Which 2013 American winner of the International Booker Prize was married to Paul Auster from 1974 to 1977, and is known for her translations of “Swann’s Way” and “Madame Bovary”?
LYDIA DAVIS
Adapted into a 2009 film with elements of eroticism, which South Korean writer won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for “The Vegetarian”, with the translation being done by Deborah Smith?
HAN (KANG)
His other appealing titles including “The Book of Intimate Grammar”, which writer clearly has a funny side as he wrote the 2017 International Booker Prize winning novel “A Horse Walks Into a Bar”?
DAVID GROSSMAN
Like Alice Munro she has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Who added the 2018 International Booker Prize to her awards collection for the novel “Flights”?
OLGA TOKARCZUK
Depicting unhappy marriages in her native country, which Omani won the 2019 International Booker Prize for “Celestial Bodies”?
JOKHA AL-HARTHI
A debut novel about a Dutch farm girl with a strict Christian upbringing, who won for the International Booker Prize for “The Discomfort of Evening” in 2020?
MARIEKE LUCAS RIJNEVELD
What was the novel that won Nadine Gordimer the 1974 Booker Prize, featuring a white antihero called Mehring who struggles to run a farm during the times of Apartheid?
THE CONSERVATIONIST
Arguably harder to remember than the author’s actual name, what was the six-word title of the novel that saw Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka take home the 2022 Booker Prize?
THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA
A family saga that spans multiple decades that each contain a death, what is the name of the work that saw Damon Galgut become the third South African to win the Booker Prize in 2021?
THE PROMISE
Sharing the prize with Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments”, what is the name of the novel by Bernardine Evaristo which won the Booker in 2019? It follows 12 characters with a chapter dedicated to each, their various lives intertwining throughout the work.
GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER
The first time an American won the award, what was the name of Paul Beatty’s novel that won the Booker Prize in 2016, its setting being the fictional Californian town of Dickens?
THE SELLOUT
Less than 200 pages, Julian Barnes finally won the Booker Prize in 2011 with which novel? He had previously been nominated for “Arthur & George”, “England, England” and “Flaubert’s Parrot”.
THE SENSE OF AN ENDING
The title character being a Jewish philosopher, which novel by Manchester-born Howard Jacobson won the 2010 Booker Prize?
THE FINKLER QUESTION
The title referring to a theory of William Hogarth’s, which novel set in the 1980s by Alan Hollinghurst won the 2004 Booker Prize?
THE LINE OF BEAUTY
Dying in Perugia on the same day as Ray Bradbury passed away, Barry Unsworth shared the 1992 Booker Prize for which novel? He has also been nominated for “Pascali’s Island”, “Morality Play” and “The Ruby in her Navel”.
SACRED HUNGER
The shortest yet to have won the Booker Prize, which novel by Penelope Fitzgerald won the 1979 award at the expense of V.S. Naipaul’s “A Bend in the River” and William Golding’s “Darkness Visible”?
OFFSHORE
A television film adaptation starring both “Brief Encounter” stars Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson, which Paul Scott novel won the 1977 Booker Prize, it featuring characters that had been mentioned in his “Raj Quartet”?
STAYING ON
A rugby league player for Leeds, that having a direct influence on his first novel “This Sporting Life”, David Storey managed to win the Booker Prize in 1976 for which novel, it being set in a Yorkshire mining village?
SAVILLE
A story about a teacher who takes a trip to the seaside, which work by Stanley Middleton shared the 1974 Booker Prize with Nadine Gordimer’s “The Conservationist”?
HOLIDAY
Centred around three tales set in different locations across the world, which novel by Trinidad-born Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul won him the 1971 Booker Prize?
IN A FREE STATE
The first installment of his “Empire Trilogy”, what was the name of the J.G. Farrell novel that won the Lost Booker Prize, this being a special edition of the event that was held to consider books that fell into a time period that wasn’t eligible for the main award because of a rules alteration?
TROUBLES
Welsh author Bernice Rubens was the first woman to win the Booker Prize in 1970 for which novel that features a character who thinks he sees silverfish everywhere?
THE ELECTED MEMBER
Its settings including Cairo, which novel by P.H. Newby was the first ever winner on the Booker Prize in 1969?
SOMETHING TO ANSWER FOR
Later going on to become Leader of the Opposition in Canada, for which novel did Michael Ignatieff make it on to the Booker Prize short-list in 1993? Sharing its name with a song that reached number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, it centres around a woman who is losing her cognitive abilities.
SCAR TISSUE
Set in a Zürich clinic for people with Alzheimer’s, “Time Shelter” was the first Bulgarian novel to be nominated for the International Booker Prize. It went on to win the award in 2023 for which alliterative Bulgarian author?
GEORGI GOSPODINOV
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