Man Booker Prize Announces 2016 Longlist

The longlist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize was announced on Wednesday, July 27. This year’s longlist, or the Man Booker “Dozen,” selected by a panel of five judges from a pool of 155 books published in the U.K. between October 1, 2015, and September 30, 2016, features:

• Paul Beatty (U.S.), The Sellout (Oneworld)
• J.M. Coetzee (South African-Australian), The Schooldays of Jesus (Harvill Secker)
• A.L. Kennedy (U.K.), Serious Sweet (Jonathan Cape)
• Deborah Levy (U.K.), Hot Milk (Hamish Hamilton)
• Graeme Macrae Burnet (U.K.), His Bloody Project (Contraband)
• Ian McGuire (U.K.), The North Water (Scribner UK)
• David Means (U.S.), Hystopia (Faber & Faber)
• Wyl Menmuir (U.K.), The Many (Salt)
• Ottessa Moshfegh (U.S.), Eileen (Jonathan Cape)
• Virginia Reeves (U.S.), Work Like Any Other (Scribner UK)
• Elizabeth Strout (U.S.), My Name Is Lucy Barton (Viking)
• David Szalay (Canada-U.K.), All That Man Is (Jonathan Cape)
• Madeleine Thien (Canada), Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Granta Books)

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, first awarded in 1969, is open to writers of any nationality writing originally in English and published in the U.K.

The shortlist of six books will be announced on Tuesday, September 13, at a press conference at the London offices of Man Group, the prize’s sponsor. The shortlisted authors each receive £2,500 and a specially bound edition of their book.

The 2016 winner will be announced on Tuesday, October 25, in London’s Guildhall at a black-tie dinner. The winner will receive £50,000.