“Misintrepretation,” the debut novel from 2012 Texas State University MFA in creative writing graduate Ledia Xhoga, has been named to the 2025 Booker Prize long list.
The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for more than five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. It is a prize that transforms the winner’s career.
“I was in upstate New York driving through an area without any internet or cell service and my phone pretty much exploded with messages about being longlisted for the Booker prize when I got to a café,” Xhoga said. “I was shocked as I didn’t expect it at all. I’m still coming to terms with all the attention it brings.
