via satellite from the Southbank’s Festival Hall in
London
Man Booker Live is an
exciting new initiative for 2012. The Man Booker Prize for Fiction has
partnered with Picturehouse Entertainment to broadcast ‘Prize Readings,’ an
evening with the 2012 shortlisted authors at the Royal Festival Hall at
London’s Southbank Centre on Monday 15 October.
Taking place on the eve of the winner announcement,
the shortlisted authors will be reading and discussing their work in front of
an audience hosted by one of the UK’s favourite broadcasters, Radio 4’s James
Naughtie.
Tickets for Man Booker Live will go on sale
this Friday, 17 August, at cinemas across the UK.
For the first time booklovers nationwide will be able
to enjoy and participate in the shortlist event at their local cinemas. For
avid followers of the Man Booker Prize and bookgroups everywhere, the evening
promises lively discussion and a unique opportunity to see world-class writers
the night before the winner of the £50,000 prize is decided.
Ion Trewin, Literary Director of the Booker Prize
Foundation, comments: “We are delighted to be partnering with the Southbank and
Picturehouse and to be able to share, for the first time, the occasion with
readers all over the country.”
The shortlist of six will be announced on 11 September
from a longlist of 12 authors, announced on 25 July. The longlisted authors
are: Nicola Barker, Ned Beauman, André Brink, Tan Twan Eng, Michael Frayn,
Rachel Joyce, Deborah Levy, Hilary Mantel, Alison Moore, Will Self, Jeet Thayil
and Sam Thompson.
Man
Booker Live is taking place at cinemas across the UK, for more
information and tickets please visit: www.picturehouses.co.uk
For more information and tickets to ‘Prize Readings’
at the Southbank Centre please visit: http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/literature-spoken-word/tickets/2012-man-booker-prize-68345
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