Man Booker Longlist Just Announced

The always highly-anticipated Longlist (see it here) for the 2014 Man Booker Prize was revealed today in London, and four American authors made the cut. They include:
* Joshua Ferris for To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
* Siri Hustvedt for The Blazing World
* Richard Powers for Orfeo.


The announcement was made even more suspenseful this year because this is the first time the prize is open to novels from across the globe ("whether from Chicago, Sheffield, or Shanghai," as the Man Booker announcement put it) as long as they are written in English and published in the UK. Previously it was restricted to authors from Great Britain, Ireland, and the Commonwealth.
 
 

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