[bksvol-discuss] Fw: Shortlist for Booker Prize announced
- From: "Kellie Hartmann" <hart0421@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:16:09 -0500
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From: "Carla Jo" <cjbratton@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Shortlist for Booker Prize announced
>
> LONDON (AP) — A childhood tale set in Libya, a 19th-century Australian
saga
> and a story of love and loss in World War II are among the finalists
> announced
> Thursday for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious award for
> fiction.
>
> As usual, the choices were contentious, with several of the most hotly
> touted entries failing to make the cut.
>
> The six books shortlisted by a panel of judges are: In the Country of Men,
> Hisham Matar's semi-autobiographical first novel about childhood in
Moammar
> Gadhafi's
> Libya; The Secret River, Kate Grenville's tale of life in an Australian
> penal colony; The Night Watch, Sarah Waters' novel about characters whose
> fates
> intertwine during World War II; The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai's
> cross-continental saga set in New York and India; Carry Me Down, the story
> of an
> unusual boy, by Irish-Australian novelist M.J. Hyland; and Mother's Milk,
a
> portrait of a rich but dysfunctional family by English writer Edward St.
> Aubyn.
>
> "Each of these novels has what we as judges were most looking for: a
> distinctive, original voice and audacious imagination that takes readers
to
> undiscovered
> countries of the mind, a strong power of storytelling and a historical
> truthfulness," said critic Hermione Lee, who heads this year's judging
> panel.
>
> The winner of the $94,000 award will be announced at a ceremony in London
on
> Oct. 10.
>
> Some of the biggest names on the 19-book longlist did not make the cut,
> including David Mitchell, whose Black Swan Green had been a favorite, and
> Australia's
> Peter Carey, a two-time Booker winner longlisted for Theft: A Love Story.
>
> Andrew O'Hagan's Be Near Me, another critical favorite, also was omitted.
>
> "These were all books that had extremely strong support and books which we
> thought were really considerable and moving and impressive, but in the
end,
> some
> books are more exciting and interesting to you than others," Lee said.
>
> The prize, open to writers from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth of
> former British colonies, was founded in 1969 and long known as the Booker
> Prize.
> It was renamed when the financial services conglomerate Man Group PLC
began
> sponsoring it four years ago.
>
>
>
>
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