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Patricia Lockwood is pictured in this Journal-World file photo from February 2014.

A novel by a former Lawrence resident has been short-listed for the Booker Prize, the prestigious literary honor awarded each year for the best novel written in English.

The novel “No One is Talking About This” by author Patricia Lockwood, formerly of Lawrence, joins five other novels on the list. This is the debut novel for Lockwood, who published the critically acclaimed memoir “Priestdaddy” in 2017.

Lockwood now resides in Savannah, Ga. Her novel was also shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

The website for the Booker Prize describes Lockwood’s novel about the internet as a “sincere and delightfully profane love letter to the infinite scroll, and a meditation on love, language and human connection.”

The five other shortlisted novels are Nadifa Mohamed’s “The Fortune Men,” Anuk Arudpragasam’s “A Passage North,” Damon Galgut’s “The Promise,” Richard Powers’ “Bewilderment” and Maggie Shipstead’s “Great Circle.”

The judges will reveal the winning book during a prize ceremony at the BBC Radio Theatre on Nov. 3. The winner will receive 50,000 British pounds.

Six authors have won the prize with their first novels: Keri Hulme, with “The Bone People” in 1985; Arundhati Roy, with “The God of Small Things” in 1997; DBC Pierre, with “Vernon God Little” in 2003, Aravind Adiga, with “The White Tiger” in 2008; George Saunders, with “Lincoln in the Bardo” in 2017; and Douglas Stuart for “Shuggie Bain” in 2020.