Booker Prize Nominees Are Released
The administrators of the Man Booker Prize released its longlist for this year’s award on Tuesday, a list of 13 novels that was notable for its diversity. The Booker is Britain’s most prestigious literary award, given to an author in the former British Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe for what the judges consider the finest novel of the year.
Robert MacFarlane, the chair of judges, said in a statement that the books on the list “range from the traditional to the experimental, from the first century AD to the present day, from 100 pages to 1,000 and from Shanghai to Hendon.â€
The books are “Five Star Billionaire†by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate); “We Need New Names†by NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus); “The Luminaries†by Eleanor Catton (Granta); “Harvest†by Jim Crace (Picador); “The Marrying of Chani Kaufman†by Eve Harris (Sandstone Press); “The Kills†by Richard House (Picador); “The Lowland†by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury); “Unexploded†by Alison MacLeod (Hamish Hamilton); “TransAtlantic†by Colum McCann (Bloomsbury); “Almost English†by Charlotte Mendelson (Mantle); “A Tale for the Time Being†by Ruth Ozeki (Canongate); “The Spinning Heart†by Donal Ryan (Doubleday Ireland); and “The Testament of Mary†by Colm TóibÃn (Viking).
The winner will be named on Oct. 15.
