Man Booker shortlist 2015: Marilynne Robinson out as new writers surge ahead

British novelists Tom McCarthy and Sunjeev Sahota make six-strong shortlist

Alison Flood - The Guardian - Tuesday 15 September 2015 

Tom McCarthy and Sunjeev Sahota are the sole British novelists on the shortlist for this year’s Man Booker prize. The award-winning Andrew O’Hagan, the third British writer to be longlisted for his novel The Illuminations, failed to make the final six.

In the biggest surprise of the shortlist, the major American author Marilynne Robinson, who has won the Pulitzer, the Orange prize and a National Humanities Medal presented by Barack Obama, was eliminated from the competition, as was former Booker winner Anne Enright.

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