Four debut novelists on diverse Booker Prize list as Mantel misses out – Sydney Morning Herald

Only one British writer made the cut for the UK’s leading book prize: Douglas Stuart for Shuggie Bain, the story of a boy in 1980s Glasgow.
The winner will be revealed on November 17, though the traditional black-tie dinner ceremony at London’s medieval Guildhall has been scrapped because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Founded in 1969, the prize is open to English-language authors from around the world, but until 2014 only British, Irish and Commonwealth writers were eligible.
That year’s chang…

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