Man Booker Prize Long List Selected

ReadersRead.com has posted the long list for the Man Booker Prize. The Times of London says this list was agonized over by judges who started with 112 books.
Their books were whittled down from around 112 entries. Some 95 novels were submitted by publishers and 17 were called in by the panel of judges - the poet and novelist Simon Armitage, the novelist Candia McWilliam, the critic Anthony Quinn and the actress Fiona Shaw, chaired by the biographer and academic Hermione Lee.

They struggled to make their choice, locking themselves away for more than six hours before they decided. The final two or three names had caused the delay, as the judges found themselves arguing the case for their favourite choices.
The long list will be narrowed down to six entries on September 14th.


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Posted on August 18, 2006
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