Man Booker Prize 2015 will be announced on Tuesday in London.
The Booker Prize for 2015, which has Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota in the running along with five other international authors, will be announced at a ceremony in London's Guildhall on Tuesday night.
This will be the second time the £50,000 prize has been "open to writers of any nationality, writing originally in English and published in the UK. Previously, the prize was only open to authors from the UK & Commonwealth, Republic of Ireland and Zimbabwe."
The judges considered 156 books for the prize this year. Chair of judges Michael Wood stated in a press release, "Only on rare occasions does celebration come so closely aligned with regret. The regret of what we left out was tempered by the enormous excitement we have in presenting the six books on the shortlist."
Here's the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015:
- Marlon James (Jamaica) - A Brief History of Seven Killings
- Tom McCarthy (UK) - Satin Island
- Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria) - The Fishermen
- Sunjeev Sahota (UK) - The Year of the Runaways
- Anne Tyler (US) - A Spool of Blue Thread
- Hanya Yanagihara (US) - A Little Life
The six novels in the short list. Image: themanbookerprize.com
Man Booker Prize tweeted a picture of the all the shortlisted authors together.
So far, Hanya Yanagihara's novel, A Little Life seems to be most favoured to win the prestigious prize. The book is about four college friends in search of fame and fortune in New York.
Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota's novel, The Year of the Runaways deals with the struggle of 13 young men who live in a house in Sheffield, each in flight from India and in desperate search of a new life.
Anne Tyler's novel A Spool of Blue Thread spools back through three generations of a family, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define who and what they are.
Marlon James is the first Jamaican-born author to be shortlisted for the prize. A Brief History of Seven Killings is inspired by the near-mythic event on 3 December 1976 when Bob Marley survived an attempt on his life in Jamaica. The book takes the form of an imagined oral biography, told by ghosts, witnesses, killers, members of parliament, drug dealers, conmen, beauty queens, FBI and CIA agents, reporters, journalists, and even Keith Richards' drug dealer.
Tom McCarthy is the only shortlisted author in 2015 to have been nominated before. He was previously on the shortlist in 2010 for his novel C. His 2015 shortlisted book Satin Island is a work reflecting disjointed times.
This year's youngest shortlisted author is 28-year-old Chigozie Obioma (28), who is the third Nigerian to be nominated. He is the same age as 2013 winner Eleanor Catton. Obioma's book The Fishermen is a story of four brothers, who use their strict father's absence from home to go fishing in a forbidden river and encounter a dangerous local madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the very core of their close-knit family.
The Man Booker Prize judges for 2015 are Michael Wood, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, John Burnside, Sam Leith and Frances Osborne. The winner will receive a cheque for £50,000 while the shortlisted authors will receive £2,500 and a specially bound edition of their book. The prize will be presented by the Duchess of Cornwall.
You can listen to a podcast about the shortlisted authors and their books here:
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