2015 Man Booker Prize
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The 2015 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 13 October 2015.[1] A longlist of thirteen titles was announced on 29 July, narrowed down to a shortlist of six titles on 15 September.[2]
Contents
Judging panel
Nominees (shortlist)
Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Marlon James | A Brief History of Seven Killings | Novel | Jamaica | Riverhead Books |
Hanya Yanagihara | A Little Life | Novel | USA | Doubleday Books |
Anne Tyler | A Spool of Blue Thread | Novel | USA | Knopf Publishing Group |
Tom McCarthy | Satin Island | Novel | UK | Jonathan Cape |
Chigozie Obioma | The Fishermen | Novel | Nigeria | |
Sunjeev Sahota | The Year of the Runaways | Novel | UK | Picador |
Nominees (longlist)
Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Marlon James | A Brief History of Seven Killings | Novel | Jamaica | Riverhead Books |
Hanya Yanagihara | A Little Life | Novel | USA | Doubleday Books |
Anne Tyler | A Spool of Blue Thread | Novel | USA | Knopf Publishing Group |
Bill Clegg | Did You Ever Have a Family | Novel | USA | Gallery/Scout |
Marilynne Robinson | Lila | Novel | USA | Virago |
Tom McCarthy | Satin Island | Novel | UK | |
Anuradha Roy | Sleeping on Jupiter | Novel | India | |
Anna Smaill | The Chimes | Novel | New Zealand | |
Chigozie Obioma | The Fishermen | Novel | Nigeria | |
Anne Enright | The Green Road | Novel | Ireland | |
Andrew O'Hagan | The Illuminations | Novel | UK | |
Laila Lalami | The Moor's Account | Novel | USA | |
Sunjeev Sahota | The Year of the Runaways | Novel | UK |
Winner
On 13 October, chair judge Michael Wood announced that Jamaican author Marlon James had won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. This is the first time that a Jamaican-born author has won the prize.[4][5][6]
See also
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