LONDON (AP) – Stories of global migration, digital dislocation and the bonds of friendship are up for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction, which could name its first American winner.
Judges will select a victor of the 50,000-pound ($77,000) award Tuesday from six books that include Pulitzer Prize-winner Anne Tyler’s multigenerational family saga “A Spool of Blue Thread” and Hawaiian writer Hanya Yanagihara’s friendship tale “A Little Life.”
British bookmakers say Yanagihara is favorite for the prize, which expanded entries to English-language writers of all nationalities two years ago.
Other contenders are British writer Sunjeev Sahota’s immigrants’ story “The Year of the Runaways”; Jamaican writer Marlon James’ Bob Marley-inspired “A Brief History of Seven Killings”; British writer Tom McCarthy’s digital drama “Satin Island”; and brothers-at-odds story “The Fishermen,” by Nigeria’s Chigozie Obioma.