India, Sept. 23 -- Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are among six writers shortlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize, putting both within reach of becoming only the fifth authors to win the prestigious fiction award twice.
James and Stuart in historic contention
James, who won the Booker Prize in 2015 for A Brief History of Seven Killings, has returned to the shortlist with The Disappearers. The novel follows a group of gay men in Jamaica during the hostile social climate of the 1980s.
Stuart, the 2020 winner for Shuggie Bain, is shortlisted for John of John, a story centred on father-son secrets on a remote Scottish island.
If either writer wins, they will join J.M. Coetzee, Peter Carey, Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood as the only multiple...