The 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on 19 November 2020. The Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 27 July, and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 15 September. The Prize was awarded to Douglas Stuart for his debut novel, Shuggie Bain, receiving £50,000. Stuart is the second Scottish author to win the Booker Prize, after it was awarded to James Kelman for How Late It Was, How Late in 1994. The ceremony was hosted by John Wilson at the Roundhouse in Central London, and broadcast by the BBC. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the shortlisted authors and guest speakers appeared virtually from their respective homes.
Judging panel Margaret Busby Lee Child Lemn Sissay Sameer Rahim Emily Wilson
Nominees
Shortlist Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain Novel United Kingdom/United States Picador / Pan Macmillan Diane Cook The New Wilderness Novel United States Oneworld Publications Tsitsi Dangarembga This Mournable Body Novel Zimbabwe Faber & Faber Avni Doshi Burnt Sugar Novel United States Hamish Hamilton / Penguin Random House Maaza Mengiste The Shadow King Novel Ethiopia / United States Canongate Books Brandon Taylor Real Life Novel United States Originals / Daunt Books Publishing The 2020 Shortlist, The Booker Prize.
Longlist Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher Diane Cook The New Wilderness Novel United States Oneworld Publications Tsitsi Dangarembga This Mournable Body Novel Zimbabwe Faber & Faber Avni Doshi Burnt Sugar Novel United States Hamish Hamilton / Penguin Random House Gabriel Krauze Who They Was Novel United Kingdom 4th Estate / HarperCollins Hilary Mantel The Mirror & the Light Novel United Kingdom 4th Estate / HarperCollins Colum McCann Apeirogon Novel Ireland / United States Bloomsbury Publishing Maaza Mengiste The Shadow King Novel Ethiopia / United States Canongate Books Kiley Reid Such a Fun Age Novel United States Bloomsbury Circus / Bloomsbury Publishing Brandon Taylor Real Life Novel United States Originals / Daunt Books Publishing Anne Tyler Redhead by the Side of the Road Novel United States Chatto & Windus / Vintage Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain Novel United Kingdom/United States Picador / Pan Macmillan Sophie Ward Love and Other Thought Experiments Novel United Kingdom Corsair, Little, Brown C Pam Zhang How Much of These Hills Is Gold Novel United States Virago, Little, Brown The 2020 Longlist, The Booker Prize.
See also List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction The official home of the 2020 Booker Prize.
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