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Booker longlist announced
Date: August 8, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Longlist for the 2007 Man Booker Prize has been revealed. From the 13 authors on the list, only one (Ian McEwan) has been nominated for the award before. Furthermore, four first-time novelists have also made the list.
This year’s longlist is:
Nicola Barker: Darkmans
Edward Docx: Self Help
Tan Twan Eng: The Gift Of Rain
Anne Enright: The Gathering
Mohsin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Peter Ho Davies: The Welsh Girl
Lloyd Jones: Mister Pip
Nikita Lalwani: Gifted
Ian McEwan: On Chesil Beach
Catherine O’Flynn: What Was Lost
Michael Redhill: Consolation
Indra Sinha: Animal’s People
A.N. Wilson: Winnie & Wolf
Shortlist will be announced on the 6th of September, and the winner will be known on the 16th of October.
