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Faites vos jeux … Man Booker prize (Photo source: The Guardian UK) |
A
host of British authors are set to find out if they have made the shortlist for
the first Man Booker Prize open to writers in the US.
Six
British writers, including David Mitchell, Howard Jacobson and David Nicholls, made the
13-strong longlist announced in July and that will be cut to just six.
A
rule change opened the 46-year-old award to more international writers,
enabling Americans to be included for the first time with four US authors among
the list of 13 announced.
Previous
winner Jacobsen is in contention with his novel J, while Mitchell's The Bone
Clocks and Nicholls' Us earned them initial nominations.
Making
up the British representation in the longlist were Paul Kingsnorth, for
crowdfunding project The Wake, Ali Smith with How To Be Both and Calcutta-born
Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of Others.
The
remaining places went to Australian Richard Flanagan and Irish writers Joseph
O'Neill - who lives in New York - and Niall Williams, who would have been
eligible under previous rules which allowed authors from the Commonwealth and
the Republic of Ireland.
The
organizers of the UK's best-known fiction award - worth £50,000 to the winner -
announced last year they were opening up the prize to writers of any
nationality writing in English.
The
shortlist, picked by a panel of judges including Sarah Churchwell, Daniel
Glaser and AC Grayling, will be announced today before a winner is revealed on
October 14.
The
longlisted books are as follows:
- Joshua Ferris (US) - To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
- Richard Flanagan (Australia) - The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- Karen Joy Fowler (US) - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- Howard Jacobson (Britain) - J
- Paul Kingsnorth (Britain) - The Wake
- David Mitchell (Britain) - The Bone Clocks
- Neel Mukherjee (Britain) - The Lives of Others
- David Nicholls (Britain) - Us
- Joseph O'Neill (Ireland) - The Dog
- Richard Powers (US) - Orfeo
- Ali Smith (Britain) - How to Be Both
- Niall Williams (Ireland) - History of the Rain
- Siri Hustvedt (US) - The Blazing World
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