Women dominate 2024 Booker Prize shortlist

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The 2024 Booker Prize shortlist has been announced, with the largest number of women represented in its 55-year history.

Five of the six-strong shortlist are women, with authors from five countries represented, including the Netherlands for the first time.

Each short-listed author receives £2,500 and the winner, announced on 12 November, will win £50,000.

The Booker Prize is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland.

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