Jamaica’s Marlon James wins Booker Prize for Marley-inspired ‘Brief History of Seven Killings’.
The winner of the Man Booker Prize will be announced later at London's Guildhall.
This year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015 is chaired by Michael Wood.
The longlist 2015 was announced on July 29, 2015, consisting 13 books.
Here is the list:
1. Bill Clegg (U.S.) - Did You Ever Have a Family (Jonathan Cape)
2. Anne Enright (Ireland) - The Green Road (Jonathan Cape)
3. Marlon James (Jamaica) - A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld Publications)
4. Laila Lalami (U.S.) - The Moor's Account (Periscope, Garnet Publishing)
5. Tom McCarthy (U.K.) - Satin Island (Jonathan Cape)
6. Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria) - The Fishermen (ONE, Pushkin Press)
7. Andrew O’Hagan (U.K.) - The Illuminations (Faber & Faber)
8. Marilynne Robinson (U.S.) - Lila (Virago)
9. Anuradha Roy (India) - Sleeping on Jupiter (MacLehose Press, Quercus)
10. Sunjeev Sahota (U.K.) - The Year of the Runaways (Picador)
11. Anna Smaill (New Zealand) - The Chimes (Sceptre)
12. Anne Tyler (U.S.) - A Spool of Blue Thread (Chatto & Windus)
13. Hanya Yanagihara (U.S.) - A Little Life (Picador)
The shortlist of authors and titles is as follows:
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1. Marlon James (Jamaica), A Brief History of Seven Killings
2. Tom McCarthy (UK), Satin Island
3. Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria), The Fishermen
4. Sunjeev Sahota (UK), The Year of the Runaways
5. Anne Tyler (US), A Spool of Blue Thread
6. Hanya Yanagihara (US), A Little Life
The shortlisted authors will receive 2,500 pounds and a specially bound edition of their book and the winner will receive a cheque for 50,000 pounds.
