- Lifestyle & Sports
- 03 Sep 19
The shortlist for the this year's Booker Prize shortlist has been revealed this morning.
For over 50 years, the Booker Prize has been considered literature's most sought after ward, recognised outstanding fiction in the English-speaking world.
Each year, a panel of judges selects one novel as the year's best fiction work written in English.
Speaking about this year's shortlist, Peter Florence, chair of this year's judges, said: "Like all great literature, these books teem with life, with a profound and celebratory humanity."
Last year's winner was Belfast-born author Anna Burns', who won for her claustrophobia troubles-set novel Milkman .
This year, no Irish authors made the list - although Kevin Barry made the longlist.
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Amongst the six authors who have nominated this year are previous nominees Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie.
Margaret Atwood (Canada), "The Testaments" (Vintage, Chatto & Windus)
Lucy Ellmann (USA/UK), "Ducks, Newburyport" (Galley Beggar Press)
Bernardine Evaristo (UK), "Girl, Woman, Other" (Hamish Hamilton)
Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria), "An Orchestra of Minorities" (Little Brown)
Salman Rushdie (UK/India), "Quichotte" (Jonathan Cape)
Elif Shafak (UK/Turkey), "10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World" (Viking)
Here's the authors who were nominated for the longlist earlier in the summer, including Limerick writer Kevin Barry:
Kevin Barry (Ireland), "Night Boat to Tangier" (Canongate Books)
Oyinkan Braithwaite (UK/Nigeria), "My Sister, The Serial Killer" (Atlantic Books)
John Lanchester (UK), "The Wall" (Faber & Faber)
Deborah Levy (UK), "The Man Who Saw Everything" (Hamish Hamilton)
Valeria Luiselli (Mexico/Italy), "Lost Children Archive" (4th Estate)
Max Porter (UK), "Lanny" (Faber & Faber)
Jeanette Winterson (UK), "Frankissstein" (Jonathan Cape)