Booker Prize 2021 shortlist unveiled as race for £50,000 prize hots up
Analysis / The 2021 Booker shortlist tunes in to the worries of our age
Nadifa Mohamed is sole British writer to make Booker prize shortlist
debut novelist dubbed the “poet laureate of Twitter” is in the running to win the Booker Prize after being shortlisted for the £50,000 prize.
Patricia Lockwood, who is shortlisted for her book No One is Talking About This, is on the shortlist with five other writers including two other Americans Maggie Shipstead and Richard Powers.
Lockwood, who previously wrote a memoir about growing up the child of a catholic priest, has more than 100,000 followers on Twitter and her novel is presented in small paragraphs as if the reader is scrolling through social media.
Also nominated is South African Damon Galgut, Anuk Arudpragasam, from Sri Lanka and Londoner Nadifa Mohamed whose true crime inspired story The Fortune Men is about a miscarriage of justice in the multi-cultural Cardiff docks of the 1950s.
It means disappointment for former winner Kazuo Ishiguro who was longlisted for his eighth novel Klara And The Sun but failed to make the cut.
