Here Is the 2016 Man Booker Prize Longlist
The 2016 Man Booker Prize longlist is here, and this year's selection of 13 novels is roughly half men seven and half women six. Although the prize was historically limited to authors from the U.K, the Commonwealth, Ireland and Zimbabwe, 2016 is the third year it is open to anyone writing in English and published in the U.K. The longlist includes five American writers, the same number as last year. On the list is author J.M. Coetzee, who has won the Man Booker Prize twice before, once in 1983 for his novel Life  Times of Michael K and again in 1999 with the novel Disgrace. Other longlisters include Deborah Levy, who was previously shortlisted for the prize, and A.L. Kennedy, a prize judge in 1996. The list also includes four debut novels Hystopia by David Means, The Many by Wyl Menmuir, Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh and Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves. Paul Beatty US  The Sellout , J.M. Coetzee South African-Australian  The Schooldays of Jesus , A.L. Kennedy UK  Serious Sweet , Deborah Levy UK  Hot Milk , Graeme Macrae Burnet UK  His Bloody Project , Ian McGuire UK  The North Water , David Means US  Hystopia , Wyl Menmuir UK  The Many , Ottessa Moshfegh US  Eileen , Virginia Reeves US  Work Like Any Other , Elizabeth Strout US  My Name Is Lucy Barton, David Szalay Canada-UK  All That Man Is , Madeleine Thien Canada  Do Not Say We Have Nothing , The shortlist of six books will be announced Sept. 13 and the winner will be announced Oct. 25. Shortlisted authors will each receive 2,500 and the winner will get an additional 50,000.