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Man Booker Prize 2013 longlist announced

23 July 2013   Books+Publishing
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The Luminaries by New Zealand author Eleanor Catton (Granta) is among the 13 books longlisted for 2013 Man Booker Prize. 

The Luminaries is Catton’s second novel, following The Rehearsal, which was first published by Victoria University Press in New Zealand in 2008. The Luminaries will be published by Victoria University Press in New Zealand in August and by Granta in Australia in September.

The full longlist is:

  • Five Star Billionaire (Tash Aw, Fourth Estate)
  • We Need New Names (NoViolet Bulawayo, Chatto & Windus)
  • The Luminaries (Eleanor Catton, Granta)
  • Harvest (Jim Crace, Picador)
  • The Marrying of Chani Kaufman (Eve Harris, Sandstone Press)
  • The Kills (Richard House, Picador) 
  • The Lowland (Jhumpa Lahiri, Bloomsbury)
  • Unexploded (Alison MacLeod, Hamish Hamilton)
  • TransAtlantic (Colum McCann, Bloomsbury)
  • Almost English (Charlotte Mendelson, Pan Macmillan) 
  • A Tale for the Time Being (Ruth Ozeki, Text)
  • The Spinning Heart (Donal Ryan, Doubleday)
  • The Testament of Mary (Colm Tóibín, Picador).

 

A shortlist for this year’s prize will be announced on 10 September, ahead of the winner’s announcement on 15 October. Each of the six shortlisted authors is awarded £2500 (approximately A$4151) and a specially commissioned handbound edition of their book. The winner receives a further £50,000 (A$82,867). 

Five of the titles on the longlist are yet to be published locally, including Catton’s The Luminaries (Granta). Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson (Pan Macmillan) will be be published in September and according to a number of retailers, The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris (Sandstone Press) will also be available locally in September. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury) and Unexploded by Alison MacLeod (Hamish Hamilton) will be available locally in October and November, respectively. 

Chair of the judges Robert Macfarlane described this year’s longlist as ‘surely the most diverse longlist in Man Booker history: wonderfully various in terms of geography, form, length and subject’. ‘These thirteen outstanding novels range from the traditional to the experimental, from the first century AD to the present day, from one hundred pages to one thousand, and from Shanghai to Hendon,’ said Macfarlane.

For more information, visit the Man Booker Prize website here.

 

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