SOURCE: THE HINDU

Six American writers including Rachel Kushner, Percival Everett and Tommy Orange are among 13 semifinalists announced Tuesday for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Cheyenne and Arapaho author Orange is the first Native American Booker semifinalist for the 50,000 pound ($64,000) award with his centuries-spanning saga “Wandering Stars.” Everett is nominated for “James,” which reimagines Mark Twain's “Huckleberry Finn” from the point of view of its main Black character, the enslaved man Jim.