The White Tiger shortlisted for John Llewellyn Rhys prize
Man Booker winner competes with poetry and non-fiction
4 November 2008
Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008, has been shortlisted for this year's John Llewellyn Rhys prize.
Two novels are on the shortlist - Adiga's The White Tiger and Ross Raisin's God's Own Country, also by a first-time novelist. They will compete with a narrative poem by Adam Foulds, and three non-fiction titles - Henry Hitchings' history of English, The Secret Life of Words, Brian Schofield's Selling Your Father's Bones and James Palmer's The Bloody White Baron.
The shortlist in full:
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Broken Word by Adam Foulds
The Secret Life of Words by Henry Hitchings
The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer
God's Own Country by Ross Raisin
Selling Your Father's Bones by Brian Schofield
The John Llewellyn Rhys prize is awarded to the best work of literature - fiction, non-fiction, poetry or drama - by a UK or Commonwealth writer aged 35 or under. The winner wins £5,000.This year's judging panel is chaired by Henry Sutton, books editor of the Daily Mirror. He is joined by Joolz Denby and Sarah Hall.
Founded 65 years ago in honour of John Llewellyn Rhys, a writer who was killed in action during the second world war, the prize has previously awarded authors such as Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble and VS Naipaul. Andrew Motion was the last poet to win the prize in 1984.
The winner will be revealed on November 24 2008.
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