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Booker Prize Unveils Six Finalists for 2023

9/25/2025

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Booker Prize judges narrowed to six finalists from a 13-book longlist.
Finalists: Kiran Desai, Andrew Miller, David Szalay, Susan Choi, Katie Kitamura, Ben Markovits.
Desai's novel explores love and belonging among Indian writers in the US; Choi's blends family drama with a thriller about a girl and her drowned father; Kitamura's merges reality and performance, with a film adaptation underway.

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Booker Prize judges narrowed to six finalists from a 13-book longlist.
Finalists: Kiran Desai, Andrew Miller, David Szalay, Susan Choi, Katie Kitamura, Ben Markovits.
Desai's novel explores love and belonging among Indian writers in the US; Choi's blends family drama with a thriller about a girl and her drowned father; Kitamura's merges reality and performance, with a film adaptation underway.