Man Booker shortlist announced

Seven titles from the Man Booker longlist have been culled, leaving a shortlist of six titles. Stephen Kelman, Pigeon English (Bloomsbury) and AD Miller, Snowdrops (Atlantic), are two first time novelists from the original four that made the longlist. More familiar with the prize are Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape – Random House) and Carol Birch, Jamrach’s Menagerie (Canongate Books). This is Barnes’ fourth time on the shortlist and Birch was longlisted in 2003.

Joining the four British authors are Canadian writers Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers (Granta) and Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues (Serpent’s Tail). Four of the six titles were published by independent publishers. All six authors will receive £2500 and a designer bound edition of their book. The winner will receive £50,000 and a large influx in royalties. The winner will be announced on Tuesday 18 October.

More info here: www.themanbookerprize.com.

— 07.09.2011

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