The Man Booker Prize 2017: Shortlist.

The 2017 Man Booker shortlist

4321 by Paul Auster (Faber & Faber)

History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)

Elmet by Fiona Mozley (JM Originals, John Murray)

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (Bloomsbury)

Autumn by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton

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Paul Auster and George Saunders are major names that will battle it out for the prize but in the background are some debut names:

Fiona Mozley.

A debut novelist whose first novel that was picked for the prize is the story of a man and his children who retreat to live in a copse in Yorkshire’s West Riding.

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Emily Fridlund.

A first timer, the American novelist writes about an isolated 14-year-old as she grows up in a failing cult in the US’s midwest.

But with half of the authors from the US, judges were questioned at a press conference about the “Americanisation” of the UK’s top literary award. The £50,000 prize was opened up to US writers three years ago, and was won last year by American Paul Beatty for The Sellout.

The judges were chaired by Baroness Lola Young.

Source: The Guardian.