Stewart
Active Member
The longlist for the Man Booker Prize 2008 has been announced.
This year’s panel of judges tasked with whittling down over a hundred titles to the thirteen above, and ultimately to the winner, are:
- The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (Atlantic)
- Girl In A Blue Dress, Gaynor Arnold (Tindal Street)
- The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)
- From A To X, John Berger (Verso)
- The Lost Dog, Michelle de Kretser (Chatto & Windus)
- Sea Of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh (John Murray)
- The Clothes On Their Backs, Linda Grant (Virago)
- A Case Of Exploding Mangoes, Mohammed Hanif (Jonathan Cape)
- The Northern Clemency, Philip Hensher (Fourth Estate)
- Netherland, Joseph O’Neill (Fourth Estate)
- The Enchantress Of Florence, Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape)
- Child 44, Tom Rob Smith (Simon & Schuster)
- A Fraction Of The Whole, Steve Toltz (Hamish & Hamilton)
This year’s panel of judges tasked with whittling down over a hundred titles to the thirteen above, and ultimately to the winner, are:
Michael Portillo (Chair)
Alex Clark
Louise Doughty
James Heneage
Hardeep Singh Kohli
Alex Clark
Louise Doughty
James Heneage
Hardeep Singh Kohli