Six of the thirteen longlist titles

Longlist announced for Man Booker Prize 2009

Six of the thirteen longlist titles

Judges decide on Man Booker Dozen

28 July 2009

The judges for the 2009 Man Booker Prize have announced today, Tuesday 28 July, the longlist of 13 titles - or the Man Booker Dozen.

The longlist includes Summertime by J.M. Coetzee, who is one of only two novelists to have won the Booker Prize twice with Life & Times of Michael K in 1983 and Disgrace in 1999.

The longlist also features The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt, winner of the Booker Prize in 1990 with Possession. 

William Trevor, previously shortlisted four times for the annual prize, is longlisted for his new novel Love and Summer.  

Sarah Waters and Colm Toibin, who have both been twice-shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, have made the 2009 longlist with their latest novels. Hilary Mantel was previously longlisted for the prize.

The 2009 longlist is:

Author                          Title                                          Publisher

Byatt, AS                      The Children's Book                 Random House - Chatto and Windus

Coetzee, J M               Summertime                            Random House - Harvill Secker

Foulds, Adam              The Quickening Maze              Random House - Jonathan Cape

Hall, Sarah                   How to paint a dead man      Faber and Faber

Harvey, Samantha      The Wilderness                        Random House - Jonathan Cape

Lever, James                Me Cheeta                              HarperCollins - Fourth Estate

Mantel, Hilary              Wolf Hall                                  HarperCollins - Fourth Estate

Mawer, Simon             The Glass Room                       Little, Brown

O'Loughlin, Ed             Not Untrue & Not Unkind        Penguin - Ireland

Scudamore, James      Heliopolis                                 Random House - Harvill Secker

Toibin, Colm                Brooklyn                                  Penguin - Viking

Trevor, William             Love and Summer                   Penguin - Viking

Waters, Sarah              The Little Stranger                    Little, Brown - Virago

    

The chair of judges, James Naughtie, said today:

'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.'

Chaired by broadcaster and author James Naughtie, the 2009 judges are Lucasta Miller, biographer and critic; Michael Prodger, Literary Editor of The Sunday Telegraph; Professor John Mullan, academic, journalist and broadcaster and Sue Perkins, comedian, journalist and broadcaster.

A total of 132 books, 11 of which were called in by the judges, were considered for the ‘Man Booker Dozen' longlist of 13 books.

 Read the full press release here.

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