The Man Booker Prize shortlist was announced yesterday and the winner will be announced on 16 October.Comments Sir Peter Stothard, Chair of Judges and Editor of the Times Literary Supplement:
‘After re-reading an extraordinary longlist of twelve, it was the pure power of prose that settled most debates. We loved the shock of language shown in so many different ways and were exhilarated by the vigour and vividly defined values in the six books that we chose - and in the visible confidence of the novel's place in forming our words and ideas.’
Stothard was joined at the press conference by the four other members of the 2012 Man Booker Prize judging panel: Dinah Birch, academic and literary critic; Amanda Foreman, historian, writer and broadcaster; Dan Stevens, actor; and Bharat Tandon, academic, writer and reviewer.
This year’s winner will be announced on Tuesday 16 October 2012, at a dinner at London’s Guildhall, where the announcement of the winner will be televised by the BBC. Each shortlisted author will receive £2,500 and a specially commissioned handbound edition of their book. The winner will receive a further £50,000. The winner may also expect a significant increase in sales of their book: Julian Barnes’ The Sense of An Ending (Jonathan Cape, Random House), which won the 2011 prize, has now sold over 300,000 in the UK in print copies alone.
Read more at www.themanbookerprize.com/news/2012-shortlist-announced
Read what others are saying about the Shortlist:
And now to the Shortlist!
Bring up the bodies by Hilary Mantel [see also Flappy Jandal's post]
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan EngThe Lighthouse by Alison Moore
Umbrella by Will Self
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