#ManBooker2016
| #FinestFiction
Publishers are reminded that the deadline for
submissions for the 2016 Man Booker Prize for
Fiction is Friday 4 March.
Other key dates for 2016 are:
- Wednesday 27 July
The announcement of the 2016 longlist. This will be the third year that
the £50,000 prize has been open to any writer, writing originally in English
and published in the UK, irrespective of nationality.
The 12 or 13
titles – known as the ‘Booker Dozen’ – will be selected by the panel of five
judges: Amanda
Foreman (Chair), Jon Day, Abdulrazak
Gurnah, David
Harsent and Olivia
Williams.
- Tuesday 13 September
The announcement of the 2016 shortlist of six
books. The shortlist will be announced at a morning press conference at Man
Group, followed by an event at the Serpentine Gallery that evening.
- Tuesday 25
October
The announcement of the 2016 winner at a ceremony
on at London’s Guildhall.
Link to press image of 2016 judges: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qustmk8m4y9qq13/AAAXLwAUmxSKslpOaH5OgRFUa?dl=0
For
more information, contact:
Katy
MacMillan-Scott or Rosie Beaumont-Thomas at Four Colman Getty
katy.macmillan-scott@fourcolmangetty.com / rosie.beaumont-thomas@fourcolmangetty.com
+44 20 3697 4253 (Katy) / +44 20 3697 4230 (Rosie)
+44 20 3697 4253 (Katy) / +44 20 3697 4230 (Rosie)
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