The longlist for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction - the Man Booker Dozen was announced on 26 July 2011. The list includes 13 books. Four first time novelists and three Canadian writers were shortlisted. The list also includes three new publishers to the prize - Oneworld, Sandstone Press and Seren Books. One former Man Booker Prize winner, two previously shortlisted writers and one long listed author was also named in the list.
The titles were chosen by a panel of five judges chaired by author and former Director-General of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington. A total of 138 books, seven of which were called in by the judges, were considered for the Man Booker Dozen longlist.
The four first time novelists on the list are Stephen Kelman for Pigeon Engli , AD Miller, Yvvette Edwards for A Cupboard Full of Coats and Patrick McGuinness for The Last Hundred Days.
Canadian author Alison Pick, like McGuinness, is a published poet and is joined by fellow Canadians, Patrick deWitt and Esi Edugyan, on the longlist. The list includes one former winner, Alan Hollinghurst, who won the prize in 2004 for The Line of Beauty. He was also shortlisted in 1994 for The Folding Star. Two previously shortlisted authors also make the list- Irish writer Sebastian Barry (The Secret Scripture, 2008 and A Long Long Way, 2005) and Julian Barnes (Arthur and George, 2005, England, England, 1998 and Flaubert's Parrot, 1984). Carol Birch was longlisted in 2003 for Turn Again Home. The winner will receive £ 50,000 and each of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, will receive £ 2,500 and a designer bound edition of their book.
The 2011 longlist does not include any Indian. Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and Arvinda Adiga are among the Indians who won the Booker Prize in the past.
The judges for the 2011 Prize include Matthew d'Ancona, Susan Hill, Chris Mullin and Head of Books at the Daily Telegraph, Gaby Wood. Dame Stella Rimington is the Chair.
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