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Not familiar with the Man Booker Prize? Click here for more information. The 2008 Man Booker Prize season is shaping up to be an interesting year. There are a number promising books by established and new authors. In addition, this is the first year that the longlist will be published in July. This certainly makes it tricky to make longlist predictions, when many publishers still deem August and September as the months to publish their literary gems. The TurboBookSnob wonders, if in the future, the earlier longlist date will drive changes in publication dates of literary novels. Here is an overview of some of the potential contenders for this year's Man Booker Prize. Man Booker Prize Winners: Four former prize winners have published books within the qualifying dates. Peter Carey's His Illegal Self is perhaps the author's best work since Oscar and Lucinda. Salman Rushdie delivers a gloriously written love story in The Enchantress of Florence. James Kelman has written the magnificent Kieron Smith, Boy. Stanley Middleton publishes Her Three Wise Men in August. Man Booker Prize Shortlisted Authors: There are a number of shortlisted authors with books out this year:
Man Booker Prize Longlisted Authors: There are also a number of longlisted authors with books out this year:
First Novels : The following list contains some of the promising debuts in literary fiction this year:
Blurring the Lines: Several books this year blur the lines of "traditional" fiction, including:
Husband and Wife: It is theoretically possible this year to have a husband and wife on the longlist. Martin Amis will be publishing his new novel, The Pregnant Widow, in September, and in May, his wife, Isabel Fonesca, published her debut novel, Attachment.
Send TurboBookSnob Your Ideal LonglistWhich books would you have included on this year's longlist? Which books on this year's list would you have omitted? Send an e-mail message to wendy@turbobooksnob.com , telling the TurboBookSnob which 12 books you would have chosen, and any other thoughts you have on this year's prize, and she will post them on this page throughout the coming month.
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What is the Man Booker Prize?The Booker Prize, or the Man Booker Prize as it has been known since 2002, was created in 1969, and has grown over the years to become the most prestigious prize awarded for literature in the English language. The Booker Prize is awarded each year to the best full-length novel written in the English language by a citizen of Great Britain, the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan, or South Africa. Booker Prize winners have achieved remarkable critical acclaim, sold a record-breaking number of copies (Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally has sold over 2 million copies since it won the prize in 1982), and have been transformed into many well-regarded films. Throughout the 35 years that the Booker has been in existence, it has changed its name, undergone changes in the governing rules, raised eyebrows with its scandals, drawn press attention as literary heavyweights jabbed at each other, and been accused of touting literary elitism instead of promoting books that people off the street would feel compelled to buy. In spite of all this, and quite possibly because of it, the Booker Prize has emerged as the premier literary prize, not just in the English language, but in the world. |
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