Esi Edugyan, Michael Ondaatje included in longlist for 2018 Man Booker Prize
Canadians Esi Edugyan and Michael Ondaatje have been longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize for their novels Washington Black and Warlight, respectively.
The prestigious British literary prize announced its longlist of 13 titles, which includes a graphic novel for the first time.
The £50,000 award is given to any work of fiction written in English.
Edugyan's Washington Black, will be released in Canada in September 2018, t
Edugyan was previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011 for her novel Half-Blood Blues.
The novel went on to win the Scotiabank Giller Prize that year, and become a finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction (now the Women's Prize for Fiction), the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Ondaatje is no stranger to Man Booker Prize success.
Ondaatje's novel The English Patient was recently won the Golden Man Booker winner.
The special one-off competition was designed to mark the 50th anniversary for the British literary prize.
It placed the Man Booker Prize's previous 51 winners in a head-to-head battle to determine which has stood the test of time.
The English Patient won the Booker in 1992, when it tied with Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger for the prize.
Sabrina by American Nick Drnaso is the first graphic novel to ever be longlisted for the prize.
Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room is also included
The other books on the longlist include:
Snap by Belinda Bauer (U.K.)
Milkman by Anna Burns (U.K.)
In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne (U.K.)
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson (U.K.)
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (U.S.)
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh (U.K.)
The Overstory by Richard Powers (U.S.)
The Long Take by Robin Robertson (U.K.)
Normal People by Sally Rooney (Ireland)
From A Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan (Ireland)
This year's jury includes philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, crime writer Val McDermid, cultural critic Leo Robson, feminist writer and critic Jacqueline Rose and artist Leanne Shapton.
The shortlist will be announced on Sept. 20, 2018 and the winner will be revealed on Oct. 16, 2018.
Canadians Esi Edugyan and Michael Ondaatje have been longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize for their novels Washington Black and Warlight, respectively.
The prestigious British literary prize announced its longlist of 13 titles, which includes a graphic novel for the first time.
The £50,000 award is given to any work of fiction written in English.
Edugyan's Washington Black, will be released in Canada in September 2018, t
Edugyan was previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011 for her novel Half-Blood Blues.
The novel went on to win the Scotiabank Giller Prize that year, and become a finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction (now the Women's Prize for Fiction), the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Ondaatje is no stranger to Man Booker Prize success.
Ondaatje's novel The English Patient was recently won the Golden Man Booker winner.
The special one-off competition was designed to mark the 50th anniversary for the British literary prize.
It placed the Man Booker Prize's previous 51 winners in a head-to-head battle to determine which has stood the test of time.
The English Patient won the Booker in 1992, when it tied with Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger for the prize.
Sabrina by American Nick Drnaso is the first graphic novel to ever be longlisted for the prize.
Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room is also included
The other books on the longlist include:
Snap by Belinda Bauer (U.K.)
Milkman by Anna Burns (U.K.)
In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne (U.K.)
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson (U.K.)
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (U.S.)
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh (U.K.)
The Overstory by Richard Powers (U.S.)
The Long Take by Robin Robertson (U.K.)
Normal People by Sally Rooney (Ireland)
From A Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan (Ireland)
This year's jury includes philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, crime writer Val McDermid, cultural critic Leo Robson, feminist writer and critic Jacqueline Rose and artist Leanne Shapton.
The shortlist will be announced on Sept. 20, 2018 and the winner will be revealed on Oct. 16, 2018.
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