Wednesday 5 August 2015

Anna Smaill Makes Man Booker Longlist


Congratulations to Wellington based writer Anna Smaill on her nomination for the presigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction.


Her debut novel The Chimes has received great reviews and is among a diverse selection of 13 books to make it onto the 2015 Man Booker Prize longlist.

If you want to explore the full list of nominees Hastings District Libraries have a number in their collections currently and others have been ordered.

Follow the links below to view the books in the catalogue.

The 2015 Man Booker Prize Longlist:

Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have A Family
Anne Enright, The Green Road
Laila Lalami, The Moor's Account
Tom McCarthy, Satin Island
Chigozi Obioma, The Fishermen
Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations
Marilynne Robinson, Lila
Anuradha Roy, Sleeping on Jupiter
Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways
Anna Smaill, The Chimes
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

The Man Booker Prize is awarded for the best English language novel of the year, as chosen by a panel of acclaimed judges. The 2015 Judges are Ellah Allfrey, John Burnside, Sam Leith, Frances Osborne and Michael Wood (Chair). The winner receives £50,000 in prize money as well as huge publicity for the author and novel.
  • The Man Booker Prize shortlist will be announced on Tuesday 15 September 2015
  • The Man Booker Prize winner will be announced on Tuesday 13 October 2015.
New Zealand’s Eleanor Catton won the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 2013 for her novel The Luminaries.

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