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Former winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart were included on the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist of six novels, with the winner to be announced 9 November.

Financial Times
Booker Prize 2026 — former winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart on shortlist

The six novels span genres from dystopian and historical fiction to contemporary realism and campus satire

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New York Times
Booker Prize 2026: Six Novels Make Shortlist

If James wins for “The Disappearers” or Stuart for “John of John, ” it would be a rare second win for an author in the history of the prestigious literary award.

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The Guardian
Previous winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart shortlisted for Booker prize

The two authors are in the running for the £50, 000 award alongside a Pulitzer winner, a science fiction legend, a comic writer and a debut novelist • Booker judge Mary Beard on this year’s shortlist This year’s Booker prize shortlist features some very familiar names - previous winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are in the running once more, along with Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Strout and prominent British speculative fiction writer M John Harrison. Novelist and poet Luke Kennard and debut novelist Rebecca Perry are also in contention for the £50, 000 prize, the winner of which will be announced on Monday 9 November. James, the Jamaican writer who took home the prize in 2015 for A Brief History of Seven Killings, was shortlisted this time for The Disappearers . Set in Aids-era Jamaica, the novel centres around an attack on a group of queer men rehearsing John Herbert’s prison-set play Fortune and Men’s Eyes. Coming in at 640 pages, it’s the longest on the list. Continue reading. . .

Previous winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart shortlisted for Booker prize
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