Anne Enright’s The Green Road and Adam Johnson’s Fortune Smiles are among the finalists for the LA Times Fiction award. Chigozie Obioma’s best selling The Fishermen and Sara Novic’s Girl at War are short-listed for the Art Seidenbaum Award for first fiction and Richard Prices’s The Whites is one of the five finalists in the Mystery/Thriller category. Full fiction lists inside:
Booker Prize shortlist announced
Marlon James, Tom McCarthy, Chigozie Obioma, Sunjeev Sahota, Anne Tyler and Hanya Yanagihara were today announced as the shortlisted authors for the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
The chair of judges Michael Wood said that “Only on rare occasions does celebration come so closely aligned with regret. The regret of what we left out was tempered by the enormous excitement we have in presenting the six books on the shortlist.
‘We re-read all 13 books on the longlist and in the process we rediscovered new pleasures in each. The writers on the shortlist present an extraordinary range of approaches to fiction. They come from very different cultures and are themselves at very different stages of their careers.’ Details and links to the full shortlist for the prize, which will be announced on Tuesday 13th October are:
American authors dominate Man Booker 2015 longlist
American writers dominate the Man Booker Prize long list with five inclusions followed by the UK with three. Ireland, Jamaica, Nigeria, India and New Zealand all have one. Already this has fuelled a renewal of opposition to the expansion of the prize to writers from outside the UK& Commonwealth, Zimbabwe and the Republic of Ireland last year.
- 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)