Man Booker Prize 2015

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The longlist for the Man Booker prize has been announced.

The shortlist will be announced on September 15.

The winner will be announced on October 13 in Guildhall, London and broadcast by the BBC.

Here is the "Man Booker Dozen":

Bill Clegg (US) - Did You Ever Have a Family            

Anne Enright (Ireland) - The Green Road 

Marlon James (Jamaica) - A Brief History of Seven Killings

Laila Lalami (US) - The Moor's Account 

Tom McCarthy (UK) - Satin Island 

Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria) - The Fishermen 

Andrew O’Hagan (UK) - The Illuminations 

Marilynne Robinson (US) - Lila            

Anuradha Roy (India) - Sleeping on Jupiter 

Sunjeev Sahota (UK) - The Year of the Runaways 

Anna Smaill (New Zealand) - The Chimes 

Anne Tyler (US) - A Spool of Blue Thread 

Hanya Yanagihara (US) - A Little Life 

There are no Canadians on the list this year.  But in the past we have had winners:

  Alice Munro in 2009,  Margaret Atwood in 2000,  and Michael Ondaatje in 1992.

Authors on the shortlist win 2,500 pounds.

The winner receives 50,000 pounds.