Man Booker 2007 longlist
The ‘Man Booker Dozen’ 2007
The longlist for the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on Tuesday 7 August 2007.
The longlist of 13 books, the ‘Man Booker Dozen', was chosen from 110 entries; 92 were submitted for the prize and 18 were called in by the judges.
The longlist is as follows:
- Darkmans by Nicola Barker (Fourth Estate)
- Self Help by Edward Docx (Picador)
- The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)
- The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies (Sceptre)
- Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray)
- Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (Viking)
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)
- What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn (Tindal Street)
- Consolation by Michael Redhill (William Heinemann)
- Animal's People by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster)
- The Gift Of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (Myrmidon)
- Winnie & Wolf by A.N. Wilson (Hutchinson)
Chair of judges, Howard Davies, comments:
"This year's longlist is very diverse, with four first time novelists as well as some more familiar names. All the books chosen are well-crafted and will appeal to a wide readership."
The judging panel for the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction included: Howard Davies, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science; Wendy Cope, poet; Giles Foden, journalist and author; Ruth Scurr, biographer and critic and Imogen Stubbs, actor and writer.
