We’ve ventured a few guesses as to who will make the Man Booker prize longlist – but which books do you expect to see on it? And how many of them will be American?
It’s that time of year again: the Man Booker judges are preparing to unveil the longlist for one of the world’s leading literary awards, at noon (UK time). And it’s a perennial pleasure to predict which of the novels published in the previous year will make it into the “Man Booker dozen” – which could add up to as many as 13 titles.
Stuart Kelly, one of last year’s judges, confessed on the books blog that “any predictions I make … will most likely be wrong. Even before I was a judge in 2013, I realised that one should probably judge the judges, not the novels, if one were planning a trip to the turf accountant’s.” Nevertheless, he highlighted some of the books we know will be considered – Ian McEwan’s The Children Act, Will Self’s Shark, David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks, Nicola Barker’s In The Approaches, Ali Smith’s How To Be Both, Alan Warner’s Their Lips Talk Of Mischief - as well as a couple whose glowing review coverage makes them likely contenders, Philip Hensher’s The Emperor Waltz and Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others.
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Stuart Kelly, one of last year’s judges, confessed on the books blog that “any predictions I make … will most likely be wrong. Even before I was a judge in 2013, I realised that one should probably judge the judges, not the novels, if one were planning a trip to the turf accountant’s.” Nevertheless, he highlighted some of the books we know will be considered – Ian McEwan’s The Children Act, Will Self’s Shark, David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks, Nicola Barker’s In The Approaches, Ali Smith’s How To Be Both, Alan Warner’s Their Lips Talk Of Mischief - as well as a couple whose glowing review coverage makes them likely contenders, Philip Hensher’s The Emperor Waltz and Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others.
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