London (AP) – Indian writer Kiran Desai, Who won Booker Prize And then did not publish a novel for about two decades, ready for the reward again with its long -awaited follow -up.
The story of the 677-pest story of two young Indians who made their way into the United States, “Sonia and Sunny’s loneliness”, is one of the 13 books, declared as a semi-finalist for the prestigious 50,000-pound ($ 67,000) award on Tuesday. The claimants include authors from nine countries on four continents.
This is Desai’s first novel since “The Inheritance of Los”, who won the Booker in 2006.
The last two finalists are again for the award: UK writer Andrew Miller, “The Land in Winter,” and Hungarian-Bitish writer David Szale, born in Canada, for “Flesh”.
Tash Ed, who has been a semi -finalist twice the first, takes the award for “The South”, he will be the first Malaysian winner.
Five of the contenders are from Britain: Miller, Szale, Natasha Brown (“Universalism”), Jonathan Bakle (“One Bot”) and Benjamin Wood (“Siscrapper”).
Running includes Susan Choi’s “Torch”, “Audition” and Ben Markopiets ” The Rest of Lives “in the books of our authors.
In addition, the list is the “misinterpretation” by Albanian-American Ladia Xhoga, “Love Forms” by Clair Adam of Trinidad, and “Ending”, Canadian-Ukrainian opera liberateist Maria Rewa.
“13 Longitized novels Pathak is brought to Hungary, Albania, North of England, Malaysia, Ukraine, Korea, London, New York, Trinidad and Greece, India and the West country,” Irish novelist Rodi Doyle called the president of the five -member judge panel.
“All, in any way, identity, personal or national, and all, I think, are entertaining and excellent,” he said.
Established in 1969, the Booker Prize has a reputation to change the career of authors and is open to novels from any country published in the UK and Ireland. Last year’s winner was “Orbital” by British writer Samantha Harvey.
A list of six finalists will be announced on 23 September, and this year’s winner will be crowned on 10 November at a ceremony in London.
Jill Lales, Associated Press
