Six of the 13 authors longlisted this year are American three are British two are Irish one is Sri Lankan and one is Zimbabwean. One previously longlisted author, Elizabeth Strout, is back for a second longlisting.Previously shortlisted authors are NoViolet Bulawayo, Karen Joy Fowler, and Graeme Macrae Burnet.Three debut novelists are here: Mottley, Maddie Mortimer, and Selby Wynn Schwartz.This list includes both the youngest and oldest authors to be longlisted for a Booker Prize for Fiction: Leila Mottley is 20 and Alan Garner is to turn 88 on the date of the award ceremony, October 17.
Publishers making their first Booker list appearance are Influx Press and Sort of Books.For the first time, the majority of the Booker longlist titles have been produced by independent publishers.This afternoon in London (July 26), small details like those have been dispensed along with the 13-title Booker Prize for Fiction longlist. Media messaging indicates that the book is 16 pages shy of the shortest book to have actually taken the prize so far, Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald, which won at 132 pages in 1979. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | also: The UK’s Booker Prize for Fiction Looks to Boost Social Media With a Book Club Contestand Nielsen BookData Opens a New Industry-Wide 10 Minute Awards Survey-looking at how industry professionals see the dynamics and value of book awards Wood: ‘Serious but Never Somber’ Those who struggle with the infamous contemporary short attention span can rejoice today: The Booker Prize for Fiction has included its briefest longlisted title on record, the aptly titled Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, coming in at a time-saving 116 pages.
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