The Booker Prize 2006
Categories: In the News , Award Winners , Fiction
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is the U.K.'s top literary prize, and according to a recent article in the London Times, "arguably the world’s top premier literary prize." The longlist for this year's prize was recently announced, and consists of 19 novels. It will be whittled down to a shortlist in mid-September, and the winner will be revealed on October 10th. Past winners of the Booker which have become favorites on this side of the Atlantic include Life of Pi, The God of Small Things, and The Remains of the Day.
I have discovered many gems on previous longlists for the Booker- authors and novels I would have otherwise never known of or been inspired to read. Since the Booker is not an American prize, the novels are not always immediately available in the States. The library owns a number of the books on this year's longlist, and others are probably not far behind. Those in the library's collection include:
Theft: A Love Story (Peter Carey)
The Inheritance of Loss (Karen Desai)
Get a Life (Nadine Gordimer)
The Secret River (Kate Grenville)
Carry Me Down (MJ Hyland)
Seven Lies (James Lasdun)
Black Swan Green (David Mitchell)
Mother's Milk (Edward St. Aubyn)
The Night Watch (Sarah Waters)
2 Comments
Yes, the Booker selections are wonderful. They’ve led me to several books that are among the best contemporary fiction I’ve ever read. I also appreciate the frequent choice of historical novels.
I agree. I hated the first Booker Prize winnter soooo much (Famished Road) that I had to read others just to believe that the prize was worth something. Haven’t stopped yet. Read most of AS Byatt, Nadine Gortimer, McEwan and Coetzee.Fingersmith was a long list contender a few years ago…great story. I read that the Booker had become usurped by commercial interests….still a nice list.