They've announced the six-title shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
This is the first year that they waived the citizenship requirement (previously: Commonwealth plus Zimbabwe and Republic of Ireland), but they managed to avoid getting completely swamped (as they feared might happen) by US writers -- though two did make the cut. Meanwhile, half of the books -- The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee, J by Howard Jacobson, and How to be Both by Ali Smith (which, coincidentally (?) are the three I'd want to read) have not yet been published stateside.
For some UK coverage, see:
This is the first year that they waived the citizenship requirement (previously: Commonwealth plus Zimbabwe and Republic of Ireland), but they managed to avoid getting completely swamped (as they feared might happen) by US writers -- though two did make the cut. Meanwhile, half of the books -- The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee, J by Howard Jacobson, and How to be Both by Ali Smith (which, coincidentally (?) are the three I'd want to read) have not yet been published stateside.
For some UK coverage, see:
- Man Booker prize shortlist 2014 includes US authors for the first time by Alison Flood in The Guardian
- Man Booker Prize shortlist: Howard Jacobson's novel J is favourite to win by Nick Clark in The Independent
- A funny, dark Man Booker 2014 shortlist by Sameer Rahim in The Telegraph