2009 Man Booker Prize Longlist Announced

Posted on July 28, 2009

The judges for the 2009 Man Booker Prize have announced the longlist of 13 titles - also known as the Man Booker Dozen.

• AS Byatt, The Children's Book (Random House - Chatto and Windus)
• Coetzee, J M, Summertime (Random House - Harvill Secker)
• Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze (Random House - Jonathan Cape)
• Sarah Hall, How to paint a dead man (Faber and Faber)
• Samantha Harvey, The Wilderness (Random House - Jonathan Cape)
• James Lever, Me Cheeta (HarperCollins - Fourth Estate)
• Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (HarperCollins - Fourth Estate)
• Simon Mawer, The Glass Room (Little, Brown)
• Ed O'Loughlin, Not Untrue & Not Unkind (Penguin - Ireland)
• JamesScudamore, Heliopolis (Random House - Harvill Secker)
• Colm Toibin, Brooklyn (Penguin - Viking)
• William Trevor, Love and Summer (Penguin - Viking)
• Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger (Little, Brown - Virago)

The chair of judges, James Naughtie, said, "The five Man Booker judges have settled on thirteen novels as the longlist for this year's prize. We believe it to be one of the strongest lists in recent memory, with two former winners, four past-shortlisted writers, three first-time novelists and a span of styles and themes that make this an outstandingly rich fictional mix."

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