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This Book Takes the Prize: Man Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
The Man Booker Prize Shortlist has been announced. Check out some of the finalists from the PJFL!
The Man Booker Prize (British literary prize) shortlist has been announced. For the prior article on the Patch focusing on the Man Booker Prize please click here.
The following works are in the running for the big prize:
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan TwanEng
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy (to be released in the U.S. on Oct. 16)
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
The Lighthouse by Alison Moore (Available through Amazon.com as a Kindle book- but no print copies. No U.S. publication date provided)
Umbrella by Will Self (To be released in the US on Jan. 8, 2013).
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
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Peter Stothard, Chair of Judges is joined on the panel by: Dinah Birch, literary critic, Amanda Foreman, historian and writer, Dan Stevens, actor (best known to American audiences as Matthew Crawley on Downton Abbey http://alpha2.suffolk.lib.ny.us/record=b4360603~S50), and Bharat Tandon, academic writer and reviewer,
British bookies are saying that Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies and the Will Self’s Umbrella are the big contenders, so we shall see. The winner will be announced on October 16 so check back to find out!
