Sophie Mackintosh, Michael Ondaatje Among Our 2018 Man Booker Prize Semi-Finalists
July 25, 2018
The longlist of thirteen semi-finalists for the 2018 Man Booker Prize, one of the most influential annual English-language international literary fiction honors, has been announced from London. They were chosen from more than 170 submitted books being published in the UK between October 1, 2017, and September 30, 2018.
Here are our longlisted titles published by Penguin Random House imprints in the U.S., Canada and the UK:
THE WATER CURE by Sophie Mackintosh
US: Doubleday
Canada: Hamish Hamilton Canada
UK: Hamish Hamilton U.K.
WARLIGHT by Michael Ondaatje
US: Knopf
Canada: McClelland & Stewart
UK: Jonathan Cape
(Earlier this month, Mr. Ondaatje’s THE ENGLISH PATIENT was awarded the Man Booker Golden Prize, honoring the best work of fiction from the last five decades of the Man Booker Prize, as chosen by five judges, and then voted on by the public.)
WASHINGTON BLACK by Esi Edugyan
U.S.: Knopf
NORMAL PEOPLE by Sally Rooney
U.S.: Hogarth (4/16/19)
Canada: Knopf Canada (4/16/19)
THE LONG TAKE by Robin Robertson
U.S. Knopf (1/22/19)
FROM A LOW AND QUIET SEA by Donal Ryan
U.S.: Penguin Books
UK: Doubleday Ireland
EVERYTHING UNDER by Daisy Johnson
UK: Jonathan Cape
THE OVERSTORY by Richard Powers
UK: William Heinemann
THE MARS ROOM by Rachel Kushner
UK: Jonathan Cape
SNAP by Belinda Bauer
UK: Bantam Press
View the complete 2018 Man Booker Prize longlist here.
The shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize will be announced on September 20, and the winner revealed on October 16.
We warmly congratulate our semi-finalists, their editors and publishers. RH’s LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders 2017 Man Booker Winner
October 18, 2017
“The form and style of this utterly original novel, reveals a witty, intelligent, and deeply moving narrative,” Lola, Baroness Young, Chair of Judges, is describing the rapturously reviewed and New York Times number one bestselling LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders which has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, one of the most renowned annual international literary honors. First awarded in 1969, the Prize is open for writers of any nationality, writing in English, and published in the U.K.
Our Man Booker Prize Longlist Selections
July 27, 2016
This year’s longlist of semi-finalists for London-originated The Man Booker Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary fiction honors, has been announced, and among its thirteen entries are several authors whose latest books are published by Penguin Random House U.S. and Canada imprints:
SERIOUS SWEET by A.L. Kennedy (Jonathan Cape)
HOT MILK by Deborah Levy (Hamish Hamilton)
EILEEN by Otessa Moshfegh (Jonathan Cape)
MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON by Elizabeth Strout (Viking UK)
ALL THAT MAN IS by David Szalay (Jonathan Cape)
Warm congratulations to all of our longlisted authors and their publishers.
View the complete longlist for the Man Booker Prize here.
On September 13, the Man Booker shortlist of six books will be announced. The 2016 prize winner will then be revealed on October 25 in London’s Guildhall at a black-tie dinner.
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.