Longlisted Novels For The Man Booker Prize

Here's one more book list for you. This time it's the Man Booker Prize longlist announced yesterday. 13 novels for this longlist were chosen from 144 submissions published in the UK between 1 October 2016 and 30 September 2017. The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, first awarded in 1969, is open to writers of any nationality, writing in English and published in the UK.

Here are those 13 lucky ones:

4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster (US) (Faber & Faber) Days Without End by Sebastian Barry (Ireland) (Faber & Faber) History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (US) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Pakistan-UK) (Hamish Hamilton) Solar Bones by Mike McCormack (Ireland) (Canongate) Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor (UK) (4th Estate) Elmet by Fiona Mozley (UK) (JM Originals) The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (India) (Hamish Hamilton) Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (US) (Bloomsbury) Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (UK-Pakistan) (Bloomsbury) Autumn by Ali Smith (UK) (Hamish Hamilton) Swing Time by Zadie Smith (UK) (Hamish Hamilton) The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (US) (Fleet)

The shortlist of six books will be announced on Wednesday 13 September at a morning press conference at Man Group, the sponsor of the prize. The shortlisted authors each receive £2,500 and a specially bound edition of their book.

The 2017 winner will then be announced on Tuesday 17 October in London’s Guildhall at a black-tie dinner, one of the highlights of the publishing year. The ceremony will be broadcast by the BBC.

First awarded in 1969, the Man Booker Prize is recognised as the leading prize for literary fiction written in English. The list of former winners features many of the literary giants of the last four decades: from Iris Murdoch to Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan to Hilary Mantel.

The Man Booker Prize is sponsored by Man Group, an active investment management firm.

Source: www.themanbookerprize.com