The Man Booker Prize judges announced on Tuesday Sep 13,2016 their shortlist for
the best original novel, written in the English language and published
in Britain.
The prize, one of the literary world's richest, is to be given on October 25 in London, and will recognise work published between September 2015 and October 2016
Since its inception in 1969, the Booker Prize could only be given to British, Irish, Zimbabwean and Commonwealth writers, but in 2013 it was broadened to accept all novels published in Britain and originally written in English
Of the 155 works that met the criteria, the judges have selected a shortlist of six -- itself considered a great honour.
"The final six reflect the centrality of the novel in modern culture, in its ability to champion the unconventional, to explore the unfamiliar, and to tackle difficult subjects," said president of the jury Amanda Foreman in a statement.
Here is the final shortlist:
The prize, one of the literary world's richest, is to be given on October 25 in London, and will recognise work published between September 2015 and October 2016
Since its inception in 1969, the Booker Prize could only be given to British, Irish, Zimbabwean and Commonwealth writers, but in 2013 it was broadened to accept all novels published in Britain and originally written in English
Of the 155 works that met the criteria, the judges have selected a shortlist of six -- itself considered a great honour.
"The final six reflect the centrality of the novel in modern culture, in its ability to champion the unconventional, to explore the unfamiliar, and to tackle difficult subjects," said president of the jury Amanda Foreman in a statement.
Here is the final shortlist:
| Author | About the Book | Other works |
| Deborah Levy | Hot Milk - A story of an intense relationship between a sickly mother and her daughter set in a small Spanish fishing village | Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, Billy and Girl, Swimming Home |
| Graeme Macrae Burnet | His Bloody Project - A story of poverty in the tiny crofting community of Culduie in the Scottish Highlands | The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau |
| Ottessa Moshfegh | Eileen - A story of "an unassuming yet disturbed young woman" trapped between caring for her alcoholic father in a squalid house and her job as a secretary at a boys' prison. | Short stories - Medicine, Disgust, Malibu, etc., |
| David Szalay | All That Man Is - a portrait of masculinity | London and the South-East, Innocent, Spring |
| Madeleine Thien | Do Not Say We Have Nothing - A story on classical music in revolutionary China | The Chinese Violin, Certainty, Dogs at the Perimeter |
| Paul Beatty | The Sellout - A satire on US urban life | The White Boy Shuffle, Tuff |
| Note In 2015, Jamaican novelist Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize for "A Brief History of Seven Killings", a fictional story about the attempt on Bob Marley's life in 1976 | |||||
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