INDIAN-ORIGIN British author Sunjeev Sahota is among the 13 authors longlisted for the prestigious 2021 Booker Prize for fiction for his novel ‘China Room’, alongside Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Powers. The 2021 longlist or “The Booker Dozen” of 13 novels was unveiled on Tuesday after judges evaluated 158 novels published in the UK or Ireland between October 1, 2020 and September 30, 2021.

 

Sahota, 40, who was 2015 Booker Prize nominee for The Year of the Runaways, is on the longlist for the 50,000-pound (USD 69,000) prize for his novel “China Room”, inspired in part by the author’s own family history. Britain’s Ishiguro, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017, is among this year’s “Booker dozen” for “Klara and the Sun,” a novel about love and humanity narrated by a solar-powered android.