Thursday, September 05, 2013

Book award news from Publishers Lunch

London's two leading bookmakers agree on the top three candidates for the Booker prize, and both have Jim Crace's HARVEST as the leader. Of course the favorite usually does not win the Booker -- except when the favorite is Hilary Mantel. The shortlist will be announced next week. And next Thursday, the National Book Awards will release their first-ever longlists.

The Center for Fiction announced the shortlist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, whose winner will be named at an awards dinner on December 11:


A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (Hogarth)
Eleven Days by Lea Carpenter (Alfred A. Knopf)
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi (The Penguin Press)
The Morels by Christopher Hacker (Soho Press)
Motherlunge by Kirstin Scott (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
The Residue Years by Mitchell Jackson (Bloomsbury)
Wash by Margaret Wrinkle (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Y by Marjorie Celona (Free Press/Simon & Schuster)

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