#ManBooker2016
July 27, 2016 9:41 AM Subscribe
Man Booker Prize Announces 2016 Longlist: The longlist, or ‘Man Booker Dozen’, for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize is announced today. This year’s longlist of 13 books was selected by a panel of five judges: Amanda Foreman (Chair); Jon Day; Abdulrazak Gurnah; David Harsent and Olivia Williams. It was chosen from 155 submissions published in the UK between 1 October 2015 and 30 September 2016. The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, first awarded in 1969, is open to writers of any nationality, writing originally in English and published in the UK.
The 2016 longlist, or Man Booker ‘Dozen’, of 13 novels, is:
Author (nationality) - Title (imprint)
• 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)
The shortlist of six books will be announced on Tuesday 13 September at a press conference at the London offices of Man Group, the prize’s sponsor. The shortlisted authors each receive £2,500 and a specially bound edition of their book. The 2016 winner will then be announced on Tuesday 25 October in London’s Guildhall at a black-tie dinner, one of the highlights of the publishing year. The ceremony will be broadcast by the BBC.
Damn it I haven't even made it through the list of books I was interested in from your post last year!
(Thanks, though.)
posted by MCMikeNamara at 10:14 AM on July 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
(Thanks, though.)
posted by MCMikeNamara at 10:14 AM on July 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
I didn't even know Coetzee had a new novel out. I'm spending far too much time in the real world these days. I should rectify that immediately, and now seems the opportune moment to escape.
posted by tzikeh at 10:17 AM on July 27, 2016
posted by tzikeh at 10:17 AM on July 27, 2016
Oh wow! this post is so timely; I've just emerged from a cruel but necessary slog through through a deadly dull tome and really need some summer reading thrills.
posted by Mary Ellen Carter at 10:31 AM on July 27, 2016
posted by Mary Ellen Carter at 10:31 AM on July 27, 2016
I'm curious if anyone here read "A Brief History of Seven Killings," which I believe was last year's winner or maybe the year before. I'm about halfway through and would love to hear some MeFites opinion on that or any of this year's long list books.
posted by cell divide at 10:34 AM on July 27, 2016
posted by cell divide at 10:34 AM on July 27, 2016
I'm curious if anyone here read "A Brief History of Seven Killings," which I believe was last year's winner or maybe the year before.
"Liked" it would be an inadequate word--I found it compelling both at the level of its form and its attempt to represent a very complex (and violent) set of historical circumstances. Not that the two can be separated, really.
posted by thomas j wise at 10:38 AM on July 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
"Liked" it would be an inadequate word--I found it compelling both at the level of its form and its attempt to represent a very complex (and violent) set of historical circumstances. Not that the two can be separated, really.
posted by thomas j wise at 10:38 AM on July 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
Whenever I'm looking for a clue as to what to read next, I either turn to MetaFilter and/or the Man Booker lists. Nice to have them here together again.
Happy to see I've already read one- The Sellout. I do like Beatty.
posted by MtDewd at 11:29 AM on July 27, 2016
Happy to see I've already read one- The Sellout. I do like Beatty.
posted by MtDewd at 11:29 AM on July 27, 2016
Eileen: I read it and I've been puzzled ever since. Sure, it was good, but that good?
posted by scratch at 11:32 AM on July 27, 2016
posted by scratch at 11:32 AM on July 27, 2016
A Brief History of Seven Killings didn't really work for me, cell divide, mainly because it put my head in a place I didn't really want to be. I found Nina to be the only character I really wanted to follow, but I wasn't particularly interested in her journey in relation to anyone else.
posted by minsies at 12:19 AM on July 28, 2016
posted by minsies at 12:19 AM on July 28, 2016
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