Here's the 2023 Booker Prize longlist

The Booker Prize buzz this year is all about the Irish.

The Guardian notes that one-third of the 2023 longlist is Irish — a first — and that the thirty-seven Irish writers who have been honored throughout the prize's history make Ireland the most-nominated country, relative to population size.

The other number of note for this year: four debut novelists and six repeat nominees.

Here are the thirteen books competing for the £50,000 (about $63,900) prize, to be announced November 26:

• A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ 

• Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry

• Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein 

• If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery 

• How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney 

• This Other Eden by Paul Harding 

• Pearl by Siân Hughes

• All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

• Prophet Song by Paul Lynch 

• In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

• Western Lane by Chetna Maroo 

• The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

• The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng

The Booker shortlist will be announced September 21; shortlisted authors will receive £2,500 (about $3,200) and a specially bound edition of their book.

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