Man Booker Prize reveals longlist

Leading prize for fiction in English, Man Booker Prize, Wednesday announced the longlist of 13 books of this year.

Writers of this year on the longlist include three Britons, five Americans, and five from the Republic of Ireland, New Zealand, India, Nigeria and Jamaica.

Thirteen books in the longlist included Satin Island, written by British Tom McCarthy, British writer Andrew O'Hagan's The Illuminations and Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways.

Did You Ever Have a Family, The Moor's Account, Lila, A Spool of Blue Thread and A Little Life were works of American writers Bill Clegg, Laila Lalami, Marilynne Robinson, Anne Tyler, Hanya Yanagihara, respectively.

Marlon James, who lives in Minneapolis and the author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, was the first Jamaican-born author to be nominated for the prize.

Former Irish winner Anne Enright's new fiction The Green Road and Indian writer Anuradha Roy's Sleeping on Jupiter were on the list.

Chigozie Obioma from Nigeria, who wrote The Fishermen, and Anna Smaill from New Zealand, who wrote The Chimes, and Bill Clegg were debut novelists on the list.

Those 13 fictions were selected from 156 books for this year's prize by a five-judge panel. The shortlist of six books will be announce on Sept. 15, and winner of this year will be announced on Oct. 13.

Man Booker Prize was first awarded in 1969, which is recognized as the leading prize for high quality literary fiction written in English. This is the second year that the prize has been open to writers of any nationality, writing originally in English and published in Britain. The prize was originally open only to authors from the UK and Commonwealth, the Republic of Ireland and Zimbabwe. Endit