Woman Booker Redux
This year’s Booker longlist is dominated by women. Broken record alert. There is obviously no need for a separate prize for women. Also. The idea that Mantel’s weighty tome The Mirror & the Light is on the same list as Tyler’s shortish story Redhead by the Side of the Road is ludicrous. Makes me want to re-read Edward St. Auban’s ludic satirical masterpiece Lost for Words. Where a cookbook wins the literary prize.
The 2020 full longlist is:
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Diane Cook, “The New Wilderness”
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Tsitsi Dangarembga, “This Mournable Body”
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Avni Doshi, “Burnt Sugar”
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Gabriel Krauze, “Who They Was”
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Maaza Mengiste, “The Shadow King”
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Anne Tyler, “Redhead by the Side of the Road”
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Douglas Stuart, “Shuggie Bain”
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Sophie Ward, “Love and Other Thought Experiments”
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