Man Booker 2011 Longlist
And news just in, as I literally published the last blog - Sebastian Barry's book has been longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Barry has been shortlisted twice before, "The Secret Scripture" in 2008 and "A Long Long Way" in 2005. I did feel Barry should have won the prize in 2008 for "The Secret Scripture", but he did go on to win the Costa Book of the Year. He's up against one former winner, Alan Hollinghurst, who won the prize in 2004 for The Line of Beauty.
The "Man Booker Dozen" is actually 13 books in total. They are:
Author Title (Publisher)
Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape - Random House)
Sebastian Barry On Canaan’s Side (Faber)
Carol Birch Jamrach’s Menagerie (Canongate Books)
Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers (Granta)
Esi Edugyan Half Blood Blues (Serpent’s Tail - Profile)
Yvvette Edwards A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld)
Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger’s Child (Picador - Pan Macmillan)
Stephen Kelman Pigeon English (Bloomsbury)
Patrick McGuinness The Last Hundred Days (Seren Books)
A.D. Miller Snowdrops (Atlantic)
Alison Pick Far to Go (Headline Review)
Jane Rogers The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press)
D.J. Taylor Derby Day (Chatto & Windus - Random House)
The shortlist of six will be announced on Tuesday 6th September.
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