Long List of 13 Nominees for Man Booker Prize 2024 Announced

One of the most influential literary awards in the world, the Man Booker Prize, has announced a long list of nominees. The list traditionally includes 13 authors.

This is reported on the prize's website.

The jury included artist and writer Edmund de Waal, writer Sarah Collins, Guardian fiction editor Justin Jordan, writer and professor Yiyun Li, and musician, composer and producer Nitin Sawhney.

Together, they selected the Booker Prize from 156 fiction books. The long list includes three debut authors and six previously nominated writers.

The long list for the Man Booker Prize 2024 is as follows:

Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange;

- Wild Houses by Colin Barrett;

- Held by Anne Michaels;

- Creation Lake, by Rachel Kushner;

- This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud;

- Playground by Richard Powers;

- Enlightenment, by Sarah Perry;

- Orbital, Samantha Harvey;

- James, Percival Everett;

- The Safekeep, Yael van der Wouden;

- My Friends, Hisham Matar;

- Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood;

- Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel.

The shortlist of six books will be announced on 16 September at a ceremony in the Portico Rooms at Somerset House in London. Each of the shortlisted authors will receive £2,500 and a special edition of their book.

The winner of the 2024 Man Booker Prize will be announced at a ceremony in London on 12 November. The winning author will receive £50,000 and can look forward to international recognition and a significant increase in global sales.

The Man Booker Prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards. It was first awarded in 1969 to Percy Howard Newby for his novel You'll Have to Answer for This.

Initially, it was awarded to an author living in a UK country for a novel written in English. However, since 2014, it has been open to writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK.

Over the years, the prize has been won by such well-known writers as Iris Murdoch, Salman Rushdie, John Coetzee, Kingsley Amis, Ian McEwan, and others. Five winners of the Booker Prize - William Golding, Nadine Gordimer, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, John Coetzee and Ishiguro Kazuo - later went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.