2021 Booker Prize longlist announced
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Sir Kazuo Ishiguro could win his second Booker Prize for fiction with his eighth novel, Klara And The Sun.
It features among 13 books on this year’s longlist, chosen from 158 novels published by writers of any nationality in the UK or Ireland.
The Japanese-born British novelist, 66, won the award in 1989 with The Remains Of The Day and has also been shortlisted three times previously – in 2005 for Never Let Me Go, in 2000 for When We Were Orphans, and in 1986 for An Artist Of The Floating World.
Klara And The Sun by Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (Booker Prize/PA)
Booker Prize 2021: Former winner Kazuo Ishiguro leads longlist
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Sir Antony Hopkins made headlines in April after he failed to show up at The Oscars to collect the Best Actor gong he was awarded for his appearance in The Father.
But speaking on Lorraine on Tuesday, the iconic actor, 83, revealed that he didn t expect to win, explaining: The contender was Chadwick Boseman, so I went to bed.
Appearing alongside The Father director Florian Zeller, the screen star continued: Well what happened very briefly: I didn t expect to get it, at all. My phone went, and it was a text from my agent saying you ve won the Oscar at about 5 o clock in the morning.