Match the following books and authors shortlisted for Booker Prize 2024:

Question

Match the following books and authors shortlisted for Booker Prize 2024:

Books Authors

Choose the correct answer:

1. A. 1-iv, 2- ii, 3-iii, 4-v (Correct answer)
2. B. 1- ii, 2-i, 3-iii, 4-v
3. C. 1- ii, 2-iii, 3- i, 4-iv
4. D. 1- iii, 2- iv, 3-i, 4-ii

Correct Answer

Option A — 1-iv, 2- ii, 3-iii, 4-v

Detailed Solution & Explanation

The correct answer is 1-iv, 2-ii, 3-iii, 4-v.

Key Points

• The correct pairing of the Booker Prize 2024 shortlisted books with their authors is:

• This gives 1-iv, 2-ii, 3-iii, 4-v. The remaining shortlisted author, Charlotte Wood, wrote *Stone Yard Devotional*.

Additional Information

• Orbital by Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize 2024. Set aboard the International Space Station over a single day, it is the first novel set in space to win the prize, and at roughly 136 pages among the shortest ever to do so.
• The 2024 shortlist was notable for being five-sixths women — the highest proportion in the prize's history.
• The Booker Prize is awarded annually for the best novel written in English and published in the UK or Ireland. It was founded in 1969, and since 2014 has been open to writers of any nationality rather than only the Commonwealth and Ireland.
• The International Booker Prize is the separate award for a book translated into English, with the prize money split equally between author and translator. In **2022, *Tomb of Sand* by Geetanjali Shree**, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, became the first book in any Indian language to win it.
• Indian and Indian-origin Booker winners include V.S. Naipaul (1971), Salman Rushdie (1981, *Midnight's Children*), Arundhati Roy (1997, *The God of Small Things*), Kiran Desai (2006) and Aravind Adiga (2008).