September 13, 2017
Concurrent but independent of the National Book Award semi-finalists serial rollout, this week also brings news, from London, of the shortlisted six nominees for the 2017 Man Booker Prize, literary fiction’s highly coveted international annual recognition.
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Here are our finalists, announced today, across our U.S., Canada, and UK companies:
Penguin Random House U.S.:
AUTUMN by Ali Smith (Pantheon Hardcover & E-Book; Anchor Paperback)
EXIT WEST by Mohsin Hamid (Riverhead Hardcover & E-Book; Penguin Audio download)
LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders (Random House Hardcover & E-Book; Random House Audio)
Penguin Random House Canada.:
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster (McClelland & Stewart)
AUTUMN by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton Canada)
EXIT WEST by Mohsin Hamid (Riverhead edition distributed by Penguin Random House Canada)
LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders (Penguin Random House Canada distribution of Random House edition)
Penguin Random House UK:
AUTUMN by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton UK )
EXIT WEST by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton UK)
Our congratulations to our Shortlist Finalists, as well as our Longlisted authors, and all among us who make their publication possible.
First awarded in 1969, the Man Booker Prize for Fiction is open to writers of any nationality, writing originally in English, and published in the U.K.
The 2017 Prize will be bestowed at the Man Booker Dinner in London on Tuesday, October 17.
The complete 2017 Man Booker Prize shortlist:
http://themanbookerprize.com/
July 27, 2017
Good news from London: The longlist of thirteen semi-finalists for the 2017 Man Booker Prize, one of the most influential annual English-language international literary fiction honors just announced, chosen from titles published in the UK between October 1, 2016 and September 30, 2017.
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Here are the nine entries published by Penguin Random House U.S., Canada, and UK imprints:
AUTUMN by Ali Smith
U.S.: Pantheon Hardcover & E-Book; Anchor Paperback
Canada: Hamish Hamilton Canada
UK: Hamish Hamilton UK
DAYS WITHOUT END by Sebastian Barry
U.S.: Viking Hardcover & E-Book; Penguin Paperback
Canada: distributed Penguin Random House Canada
EXIT WEST by Mohsin Hamid
U.S.: Riverhead Hardcover & E-Book; Penguin Audio download
Canada: distributed by Penguin Random House Canada
UK: Hamish Hamilton UK
HOME FIRE by Kamila Shamsie
U.S.: Riverhead Hardcover & E-Book; Penguin Audio download
Canada: distributed by Penguin Random House Canada
LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders
U.S.: Random House Hardcover & E-Book; Random House Audio
Canada: Penguin Random House Canada distribution
MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS by Arundhati Roy
U.S.: Knopf Hardcover & E-Book; Random House Audio
Canada: Hamish Hamilton Canada
UK: Hamish Hamilton UK
SWING TIME by Zadie Smith

U.S.: Penguin Press Hardcover & E-Book; Penguin Books Paperback; Penguin Audio
Canada: Hamish Hamilton Canada
UK: Hamish Hamilton UK
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by
Colson Whitehead
U.S.: Doubleday HC & E-Book; Random House Audio
Canada: Penguin Random House Canada distribution
Spain/Latin America: Literatura Random House/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Fall 2017
In addition, in Canada,
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster is published McClelland & Stewart.
Penguin Random House Publishers Services distributes
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack (Soho Press) in the U.S. and Canada.
We heartily congratulate our semi-finalists and their publishers. Fingers crossed for them to next join the Shortlist announced September 13. The Prize will be awarded the evening of October 17.
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, first awarded in 1969, is open to writers of any nationality, writing originally in English and published in the UK. The rules of the prize were changed at the end of 2013 to embrace the English language “in all its vigor, its vitality, its versatility and its glory,” opening the competition up to writers beyond the UK and Commonwealth.
Here is the complete 2017 Man Booker Prize longlist:
http://themanbookerprize.com/fiction