Dubai-based Indian author shortlisted for Booker Prize 2020

Dubai-based Indian origin author Avni Doshi’s book on the tale of a relationship, has been shortlisted among four debut novels for the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction 2020. Her book ‘Burnt Sugar’ is among the six books to make the final cut for the £50,000 literary prize to be announced in London in November. She joins a select group of Global Indian authors to make the Booker cut, including Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai and Aravind Adiga. This year’s shortlist is completed by Diane Cook for ‘The New Wilderness’, Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga for the third novel in her trilogy – ‘This Mournable Body’, Maaza Mengiste for ‘The Shadow King’, Douglas Stuart for ‘Shuggie Bain’ and Brandon Taylor for ‘Real Life’.