Who will win the Booker Prize in 2024?

Winning the Booker Prize is a specific kind of prestige. Founded on the principle of awarding the best original fiction in English, the award is the world’s most famous celebration of literary fiction. The winners are usually a finely crafted balance of high-minded ideas and beautiful prose in an accessible and compelling novel. Past winners include Salman Rushdie (for Midnight’s Children in 1981), Hilary Mantel (for Wolf Hall in 2009 and Bring Up the Bodies in 2012), Margaret Atwood (for The Blind Assassin in 2000 and The Testaments in 2019), Yann Martel (for Life of Pi in 2002) and Kazuo Ishiguro (for The Remains of the Day in 1989).