At last... the Man Booker announces its 2016 Shortlist. Go ahead! take a wild guess on the prospective winner... and wait till Tuesday, 25 October to tally your take! :-)
About the Booker: The Man Booker Prize was established in 1969. The
winner receives £50,000 as well as the £2,500 awarded to each of the
shortlisted authors. Both the winner and the shortlisted authors are guaranteed
a worldwide readership plus an increase in book sales.
Commonly known as the
Booker Prize - The Man Booker [that includes Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, V. S. Naipaul,
Ondaatje, Nadine Gordimer, Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel, Aravind Adiga among
its illustrious past winners] - is a literary prize awarded each year for the
best original novel, written in the English language, and published in the UK.
2016 Key Dates
Longlist: 27 July
Shortlist: 13 September
Winner: 25 October
US - Paul Beatty - The Sellout
US - Ottessa Moshfegh - Eileen
UK - Deborah Levy - Hot Milk
UK - Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project
Canada - David Szalay - All That Man Is
Canada - Madeleine Thien - Do Not Say We Have Nothing
2016 is the third year that writers of any nationality
can be nominated for the prize, and nominees include two Canadian, two British
and two US writers.
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