Photo: Lucy Corry / RNZSometime around breakfast time on Monday in Aotearoa, one book will be named the best novel of 2023. Who will win? The Booker Prize calls itself the "leading literary award in the English-speaking world". New Zealand's Ockham awards disburse a particularly good prize of $64,000 to the winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. The Booker judges worked hard in their announcement to find common ground between six novels whose authors are British, Canadian, Irish and American. But I think the Booker judges will go for Prophet Song; a story of war refugees for our time.

Source: The Guardian November 24, 2023 03:47 UTC