The drama of The Man Booker Prize is almost as palpable as that in the books that it features and the 2011 longlist is no exception. Featuring 13 books, 4 first time novelists, 2 former shortlist writers, a former winner and, apparently, three Canadian authors, The Man Booker Prize 2011 longlist could be a book all by itself.
The longlist was announced at the end of July and the shortlist of the final 6 will be revealed on the 6th September 2011. The winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, however, will not be announced until the 18th October, with the ceremony broadcast on the BBC.
The Man Booker Prize 2011 longlist is:
• Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape – Random House)
• Sebastian Barry On Canaan’s Side (Faber)
• Carol Birch Jamrach’s Menagerie (Canongate Books)
• Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers (Granta)
• Esi Edugyan Half Blood Blues (Serpent’s Tail)
• Yvvette Edwards A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld)
• Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger’s Child (Picador – Pan Macmillan)
• Stephen Kelman Pigeon English (Bloomsbury)
• Patrick McGuinness The Last Hundred Days (Seren Books)
• A.D. Miller Snowdrops (Atlantic)
• Alison Pick Far to Go (Headline Review)
• Jane Rogers The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press)
• D.J. Taylor Derby Day (Chatto & Windus – Random House)
Former director general for the MI5, Dame Stella Rimington, chaired the panel selecting the longlist from a possible 138 titles. She will continue to chair the judges for the shortlist and final, with writer and journalist, Matthew d’Ancona; author, Susan Hill; author and politician, Chris Mullin and Head of Books at the Daily Telegraph, Gaby Wood making up the rest of the panel.
