Charlotte Wood has been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, becoming the first Australian to be shortlisted since Richard Flanagan won the prize in 2014. No Australian female writer has ever won the prize.
The Booker Prize is a prestigious award founded in 1969, operating principally out of London. It is dedicated to awarding the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language. A panel of judges determined the shortlist. The novel, Stone Yard Devotional, is the first time Wood has been considered for the Booker prize. ArtsHub gave the book a five-star review.
