A Nigerian, Chigozie Obioma is among the 13 writers
listed for ‘Man Booker Dozen’, for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize announced
Wednesday, July 29 . This year’s longlist of 13 books was selected by a panel
of five judges chaired by Michael Wood, and also comprising Ellah Wakatama
Allfrey, John Burnside, Sam Leith and Frances Osborne. The judges considered
156 books for this year’s prize.
The 29-year old Chigozie, was listed for his novel, The
Fishermen, set in a small town in Nigeria in the mid-1990s. This is the second
year that the prize, first awarded in 1969, has been open to writers of any
nationality, writing originally in English and published in the UK. Previously,
the prize was open only to authors from the UK & Commonwealth, Republic of
Ireland and Zimbabwe.
The 2015 longlist, or Man Booker ‘Dozen’, of 13
novels, is:
Author (nationality) – Title (imprint)
Bill Clegg (US) – Did You Ever Have a Family
(Jonathan Cape)
Anne Enright (Ireland) – The Green Road (Jonathan
Cape)
Marlon James (Jamaica) – A Brief History of Seven
Killings(Oneworld Publications)
Laila Lalami (US) – The Moor’s Account (Periscope,
Garnet Publishing)
Tom McCarthy (UK) – Satin Island (Jonathan Cape)
Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria) – The Fishermen (ONE,
Pushkin Press)
Andrew O’Hagan (UK) – The Illuminations (Faber &
Faber)
Marilynne Robinson (US) – Lila (Virago)
Anuradha Roy (India) – Sleeping on Jupiter
(MacLehose Press, Quercus)
Sunjeev Sahota (UK) – The Year of the Runaways
(Picador)
Anna Smaill (New Zealand) – The Chimes (Sceptre)
Anne Tyler (US) – A Spool of Blue Thread (Chatto
& Windus)
Hanya Yanagihara (US) – A Little Life (Picador)
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