Booker Prize longlist announced
Judges have announced the titles longlisted for this year's Booker Prize for fiction. The prize is one of the world's most prestigious literary awards. The longlist of 13 will be cut down to a shortlist in September.
The long list:
Nicola Barker - Darkmans (Britain)
Edward Docx - Self Help (Britain)
Tan Twan Eng - The Gift Of Rain (Malaysia)
Anne Enright - The Gathering (Ireland)
Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Pakistan)
Peter Ho Davies - The Welsh Girl (Wales)
Lloyd Jones - Mister Pip (New Zealand)
Nikita Lalwani - Gifted (India)
Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach (Britain)
Catherine O'Flynn - What Was Lost (Britain)
Michael Redhill - Consolation (Canada)
Indra Sinha - Animal's People (India)
AN Wilson - Winnie & Wolf (Britain)
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