Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Powers are among 13 authors in the running for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction. (Stay up to date on new book releases, reviews, and more with The Hindu On Books newsletter. It is the fourth Booker nomination for Ishiguro, who won the prize in 1989 for The Remains of the Day. Powers won the Pulitzer for fiction in 2019 for eco-epic The Overstory, which was also a Booker Prize finalist. Founded in 1969, the Booker Prize has a reputation for transforming writers’ careers, and was originally open to British, Irish and Commonwealth writers.

Source: The Hindu July 27, 2021 01:23 UTC