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Booker Prize Reveals 2025 Longlist with Record Nine Nationalities

It highlights the return of Kiran Desai after nearly two decades alongside two debut novelists on a jury led by Roddy Doyle.

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FILE - Indian author Kiran Desai speaks during a reading event in solidarity with Salman Rushdie outside the New York Public Library, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
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Overview

  • Booker Prize Foundation unveiled its 2025 longlist on July 29, selecting 13 novels from 150 titles published in the UK and Ireland.
  • The selected authors represent four continents and nine nationalities, marking the most diverse lineup since 2015.
  • Former winner Kiran Desai returns with The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, her first novel since winning the Booker in 2006.
  • Debut novelists Ledia Xhoga and Maria Reva earn their first Booker longlist spots, underscoring the prize’s embrace of emerging writers.
  • Independent imprint Fitzcarraldo Editions secures its inaugural main Booker longlisting with Jonathan Buckley’s slim novel One Boat.