Thursday 14thSeptember 2006
THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
FOR FICTION 2006
Shortlist Announced
www.themanbookerprize.com
KIRAN DESAI, KATE
GRENVILLE, M.J. HYLAND, HISHAM MATAR,
EDWARD ST AUBYN and
SARAH WATERS are the six authors shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for
Fiction 2006, the UK’s pre-eminent literary award. The shortlist was
announced by the chair of judges, Hermione Lee, at a press conference at Man
Group plc offices in London today (Thursday 14th September).
The six shortlisted
books were chosen from a longlist of 19 and are:
|
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
|
Desai, Kiran |
The Inheritance of Loss |
Hamish
Hamilton |
|
Grenville, Kate |
The Secret
River |
Canongate
|
|
Hyland, M.J. |
Carry Me Down |
Canongate
|
|
Matar, Hisham |
In the
Country of Men |
Viking
|
|
St Aubyn, Edward
|
Mother’s Milk |
Picador
|
|
Waters, Sarah |
The Night
Watch |
Virago |
Hermione Lee, Chair of
Judges, comments:
“Each of these novels
has what we as judges were most looking for, a distinctive original voice,
an audacious imagination that takes readers to undiscovered countries of the
mind, a strong power of story-telling and a historical truthfulness. Each of
these novels creates a world you inhabit without question or distrust while
you are reading, and a mood, an atmosphere, which lasts long after the
reading is over.”
The winner receives
£50,000 with a guaranteed increase in sales and recognition worldwide. Each
of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, receives £2,500 and a
designer bound edition of their own book.
The
judging panel for the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction is: Hermione Lee
(Chair), biographer, academic and a reviewer; Simon Armitage, poet and
novelist; Candia McWilliam, award-winning novelist; critic Anthony Quinn;
and actor Fiona Shaw.
The
winner will be announced on Tuesday 10th October at an awards
ceremony at the Guildhall, London.
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