Man Booker Prize 2015 Longlist: Three Debut Writers Up for Award

 


 

The names of the authors up for the prestigious Man Booker Prize and a £50,000 prize this year have now been revealed. Among the talented bunch of 13 writers going for the win, there are three that stood out for their outstanding debut books.

According to Independent, these include American author Bill Clegh, who won over judges with his book titled "Did You Ever Have a Family," Nigerian author Chigozie Obioma, the person behind "The Fishermen" and New Zealand's Anne Smaill, the author of "The Chimes."

The trio of debut novelists will compete against last year's winner Anne Enright, who is once again lauded for her masterpiece, "The Green Road." Enright bested other Man Booker Prize finalists back in 2007 with her fourth work of fiction titled "The Gathering."

As per the official Man Booker Prize website, the other authors vying for the recognition include, Marlon James, the first Jamaica-born author to make the longlist, for his book "A Brief History of Seven Killings," which centers on the attempted assassination of Bob Marley.

Laila Lalami, the first author from Morocco to be longlisted for Man Booker Prize, is was noticed for her book "The Moor's Account." Lalami will be up against Anuradha Roy, the sole writer from India to be longlisted for her novel "Sleeping on Jupiter."

Sunjeev Sahota from UK, a 2013 Granta Best of Young British Novelists awardee, is now competing with her work "The Year of the Runaways." She will be up against other UK-based standouts Tom McCarthy with "Satin Island" and Andrew O'Hagan for "The Illuminations."

US writers Marilynne Robinson, Anne Tyler and Hanya Yanagihara are in the list for "Lila," "A Spool of Blue Thread" and "A Little Life" respectively.

The longlist of 13 books this year was selected from a total of 156 books by a panel of five presided by Michael Wood, who commended the authors from different parts of the world for their extraordinary literary masterworks.

"The range of different performances and forms of these novels is amazing. All of them did something exciting with the language they have chosen to use," Wood, who was joined by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, John Burnside, Sam Leith and Frances Osborne in the panel, said via the Man Booker Prize website.

The same website writes that the top six books to emerge from the longlist will be revealed on September 15. The Man Booker Prize winner for 2015 will be revealed on October 13 at the London's Guildhall and will succeed Richard Flanagan, whose winning book "The Narrow Road to the Deep North'' sold 800,000 copies across the world.

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