Delving into the “perplexity” of Richard Powers The Booker Prize

/"A clarion call for us to wake up and realize what we might be capable of…/" – Natascha McElhone, Booker Prize 2021 judge, on Richard Powers' shortlisted book, 'Bewilderment'.

Explore Richard Powers' profile page on our website here: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/authors/richard-powers
And learn more about “Bewilderment” here: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/bewilderment

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The Booker Prize is the most important literary prize in the English-speaking world and has brought recognition, reward and readership to exceptional fiction for more than five decades. Each year the prize recognizes what, in the judges' opinion, is the best novel of the year written in English and published in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.

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