No Australian woman has ever won the Booker. Wood is among six finalists announced overnight.
Australian author Charlotte Wood is among six finalists shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction this year, organisers announced overnight.
Five of the six authors are women — the largest number in the prize’s 55-year history. Wood has been nominated for her acclaimed novelIn January, Wood became the first Australian longlisted for the prize since J.M. Coetzee in 2016. Past Australian winners include Thomas Keneally, Richard Flanagan, Peter Carey , D.B.C. Pierre and Australian-raised Aravind Adiga. No Australian woman has ever won the Booker, though Kate Grenville, Gail Jones and Madeleine St John have been nominated.
“It was like my life caught up with what the book was trying to do, in terms of looking at questions of mortality and what matters in our lives,” she said. “That was just circumstantial, but it certainly made me feel more committed to that idea of not trying to console or explain things too much,” she told this masthead in January.
The other five finalists for the $98,000 award include American writers Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner. Everett, a 2022 Booker finalist forOrganisers said the stories transport readers from World War I battlefields to America’s Deep South in the 19th century to the International Space Station. “Here is storytelling in which people confront the world in all its instability and complexity. The fault lines of our times are here,” said author Edmund de Waal, who chairs this year’s five-member judging panel. “They are books that made us want to keep on reading, to ring up friends and tell them about them.”
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