The 2013 Man Booker Prize longlist, called the ‘most diverse’ in the prize’s history, was announced today.
Here is the list:
- Five Star Billionaire Tash Aw (Fourth Estate)
- We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus)
- The Luminaries Eleanor Catton (Granta)
- Harvest Jim Crace (Picador)
- The Marrying of Chani Kaufman Eve Harris (Sandstone Press)
- The Kills Richard House (Picador)
- The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury)
- Unexploded Alison MacLeod ( Hamish Hamilton)
- TransAtlantic Colum McCann (Bloomsbury)
- Almost English Charlotte Mendelson (Mantle)
- A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki (Canongate)
- The Spinning Heart Donal Ryan (Doubleday Ireland)
- The Testament of Mary Colm Tóibín (Viking)
There are some familiar names here, a few we might have expected, and a few surprises. Perhaps most surprising of all, however, is who wasn’t on list.
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