Man Booker Prize shortlist revealed

Leading prize for high quality fiction in English, Man Booker Prize Tuesday announced its shortlist of six books of this year.

The books included A Brief History of Seven Killings, written by Jamaican writer Marlon James, Satin Island written by British writer Tom McCarthy, The Fishermen, written by Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma, The Year of the Runaways written by British writer Sunjeev Sahota, A Spool of Blue Thread written by American writer Anne Tyler and American writer Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life.

"We re-read all 13 books on the longlist and in the process we rediscovered new pleasures in each. The writers on the shortlist present an extraordinary range of approaches to fiction. They come from very different cultures and are themselves at very different stages of their careers," said Michael Wood, chair of judges.

The final winner of Man Booker Prize 2015 will be announced on October 13 in London's Guildhall.

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 & Commonwealth, Republic of Ireland and Zimbabwe. Endit