Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2015
Today, the Man Booker Prize has announced their short list for the 2015 award. Previous winners include many prestigious authors such as William Golding, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee (x2) and Margaret Atwood.
You can see the long list, announced back in July, here on the Guardian.
Previously, the Man Booker Prize has only been open to those from the UK and Commonwealth countries. In 2014 though, the gates were opened to all English-language writers (as long as the book had been published in the UK too). The 2015 short list certainly reflects this with two authors from the US, Jamaican author Marlon James and Nigerian Chigozie Obioma. Obioma's novel is also his debut work.
The prize panel will now decide which of these authors deserves both the £50,000 prize money, and the prestige that comes with it!
The finalists of the Man Booker Prize 2015:
**Satin Island by Tom McCarthy (UK) **
**A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (Jamaica) **
**A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (US) **
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota (UK)
**A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (US) **
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria)
AlwaysBooks wishes congratulations and good luck to all of the finalists!
What do you think of the short list? Have you read any of these authors, or will you be more likely to read any of them now do you think? Let us know in the comments below or on twitter - @alwaysbooksco!