2013 Man Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
The 2013 Man Booker Prize shortlist has been announced. The shortlist was announced by Chair of Judges Robert Macfarlane. The longlist of 13 books was whittled down to the following six books:
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus)
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Granta)
Harvest by Jim Crace (Picador)
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury)
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Canongate)
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin (Viking)
Man Booker Prize Now Open to Authors From Around the Globe
Jonathan Taylor, Chair of the Booker Prize Foundation, announced today that the Man Booker Prize will now be open to all writers who write in English, regardless of where they live. Previously, the award only considered British writers. The books must have been written originally in English and published in Great Britain, but it does not matter where the author lives. Taylor says that the prize will now “recognise, celebrate and embrace authors writing in English, whether from Chicago, Sheffield or Shanghai.”
Marshall Berman, author of ‘All that is solid…”, is no more
The author of ‘All that is solid melts into air‘ has breathed his last of this planet’s oxygen but his spirit lives on. His buddy Todd Gitlin salutes him.
