6 Shortlisted For Man Booker’s Award

This year’s shortlist of Man booker’s award was chosen by a panel of five judges from 155 submissions published between 1 October 2015 and 30 September 2016.

Six compelling books have made the shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction

US novelist Paul Beatty’s satire on black life in America, The Sellout, is nominated, Hot Milk by Deborah Levy and Ottessa Moshfegh’s debut novel Eileen.

Other nominated authors include Graeme Macrae Burnet (U.K.), author of His Bloody Project; David Szalay (Canada/U.K.), author of All That Man Is; and Madeleine Thien (Canada), author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing.

JM Coetzee’s The Schooldays of Jesus and Hystopia by David Means are among the longlisted novels not to make the shortlist.

Chair of the judges Amanda Foreman said: “This is a very exciting year. The range of books is broad and the quality is extremely high. Each novel provoked intense discussion and, at times, passionate debate, challenging our expectations of what a novel is and can be.

“From the historical to the contemporary, the satirical to the polemical, the novels in this list come from both established writers and new voices. The writing is uniformly fresh, energetic and important.”

See 2016 Man Booker shortlist:

The Sellout by Paul Beatty (Oneworld)

Hot Milk by Deborah Levy (Hamish Hamilton)

His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Contraband)

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (Vintage)

All That Man Is by David Szalay (Vintage)

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (Granta) 

In total, 6 novels make the list. 3 are by women and 3 by men, with authors from Britain, Canada, South Africa and the United States, the prize committee said on Tuesday.

The nominees for the award, which comes with a cash prize of £50,000, or around $66,400, were chosen from a longlist of 13 names, which was announced in July.

Judges for the prize this year are Foreman, Jon Day, Abdulrazak Gurnah, David Harsent and Olivia Williams.

The winner will be announced Oct. 25 and shortlisted authors will each receive £2,500 and the winner will get an additional £50,000.

First awarded in 1969, the Man Booker Prize is open to writers of any nationality, so long as their book was written in English and published in the UK. Last year, Nigeria's Chigozie Obioma was shortlisted for the award but Jamaican author Marlon James won the prize last year for his epic A Brief History of Seven Killings.