Omari Douglas reads from ‘Small Boat’ | The Booker Prize

Описание: Watch Omari Douglas read from Small Boat, the #InternationalBooker2025-shortlisted novel written by Vincent Delecroix and translated by Helen Stevenson.

The story so far: November 2021: an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the UK capsizes in the Channel. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly tell the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help.

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Directed by Roxy Rezvany.

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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.

Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.

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