The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2016 longlist features debuts as well as JM Coetzee, Elizabeth Strout
Announced on July 27, the longlist for the esteemed literary Man Booker Prize for Fiction features 13 novels selected from 155 submissions.
The Man Booker "Dozen"
Despite being known as the "Man Booker Dozen," this year's selection features 13 novels published in the UK from October 1, 2015 and September 30, 2016.
Of the selection, four debut novels have been nominated: "Hystopia" by David Means; "The Many" by Wyl Menmuir; "Eileen" by Ottessa Moshfegh and "Work Like Any Other" by Virginia Reeves. Former double-winner J.M. Coetzee has also made the list with his allegory "The Schooldays of Jesus." Coetzee is one of three authors from the Commonwealth among the nominees, including David Szalay with "All That Man Is" and Madeleine Thien with "Do Not Say We Have Nothing." Five US and five UK authors make up the rest of the nominations.
Previous winners of the Man Booker Prize -- running since 1969 but only sponsored by the Man Group since 2002 -- include last year's Marlon James with "A Brief History of Seven Killings," Margaret Atwood's "The Blind Assassin" in 2000, and Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" in 1981.
A shortlist of six books will be announced on Tuesday, September 13, with the eventual winner revealed on Tuesday, October 25. The successful author will receive a check for £50,000 (around US$66,000).
The full list of nominees:
Paul Beatty (US) - "The Sellout" (Oneworld)
J.M. Coetzee (South African-Australian) - "The Schooldays of Jesus" (Harvill Secker)
A.L. Kennedy (UK) - "Serious Sweet" (Jonathan Cape)
Deborah Levy (UK) - "Hot Milk" (Hamish Hamilton)
Graeme Macrae Burnet (UK) - "His Bloody Project" (Contraband)
Ian McGuire (UK) - "The North Water" (Scribner UK)
David Means (US) - "Hystopia" (Faber & Faber)
Wyl Menmuir (UK) - "The Many" (Salt)
Ottessa Moshfegh (US) - "Eileen" (Jonathan Cape)
Virginia Reeves (US) - "Work Like Any Other" (Scribner UK)
Elizabeth Strout (US) - "My Name Is Lucy Barton" (Viking)
David Szalay (Canada-UK) - "All That Man Is" (Jonathan Cape)
Madeleine Thien (Canada) - "Do Not Say We Have Nothing" (Granta Books)
