Man Booker 2018: Daisy Johnson becomes youngest ever author shortlisted for prize

The 27-year-old British author’s debut Everything Under is up for the £50,000 award, while Michael Ondaatje and the first nominated graphic novel are knocked out

The 27-year-old debut novelist Daisy Johnson has landed a place on the Man Booker prize shortlist, making the British author the youngest writer ever to make the final cut for the £50,000 literary award.

Johnson was chosen for the final Booker six, ahead of bestselling longlisted novels from former winner Michael Ondaatje and the widely acclaimed Irish novelist Sally Rooney, for Everything Under, about a lexicographer searching for her mother. Judge Val McDermid called it a “modern variation on Sophocles’ Oedipus”, in which “the natural world is evoked with sinister sensitivity”.

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