Nobel prizewinner Orhan Pamuk and international (and mysterious) publishing sensation Elena Ferrante are among the six authors in this year’s Man Booker International Prize 2016 shortlist, a selection which, judges said, “Stretch the boundaries not just of our world, but of fiction itself”. For the first time the Prize will be awarded for a single book rather than the previous system which rewarded a body of work. The full shortlist is:

• A General Theory of Oblivion (Harvill Secker), José Eduardo Agualusa (Angola), translated by Daniel Hahn (UK)
• The Story of the Lost Child (Europa Editions), Elena Ferrante (Italy), Ann Goldstein (USA)
• The Vegetarian (Portobello Books), Han Kang (South Korea), Deborah Smith (UK)
• A Strangeness in My Mind (Faber & Faber), Orhan Pamuk (Turkey), Ekin Oklap (Turkey)
• A Whole Life (Picador), Robert Seethaler (Austria), Charlotte Collins (UK)
• The Four Books (Chatto & Windus), Yan Lianke  (China), Carlos Rojas (USA).

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