Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for the first time were American authors – Interfax

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From 2014 to the award may apply not only to the authors from the UK and the Commonwealth, but all those who write in English

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Moscow. September 9th. INTERFAX.RU – In short list Booker Prize, which is considered one of the most prestigious awards in the world of literature in English for the first time were the authors of the United States.

This is possible since 2014 for the Booker Prize can claim all those who create their works in English and publish them in the UK. Previously, the award can be nominated only by the authors from the United Kingdom and other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations, as well as from Ireland and Zimbabwe.

In the current shortlisted for the Booker Prize, two American authors: Joshua Ferris (Joshua Ferris) and Karen Joy Fowler (Karen Joy Fowler). Ferris claims the award for his novel To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, and Fowler – for his novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.

Also shortlisted for the hit Australian Richard Flanagan (Richard Flanagan). The reward can be marked his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Three of the six defendants in the “short list” – the subjects of the United Kingdom. This Neil Mukherjee (Neel Mukherjee), Ali Smith (Ali Smith) and Howard Jacobson (Howard Jacobson). Jacobson claims the award for his novel J, Smith – for his novel How to be Both, and Mukherjee – for The Lives of Others.

In Russian, these novels are not yet available.

Howard Jacobson has already became the winner of the Booker Prize. In 2010 he received the award for his novel “Finkler Question.” Writer Ali Smith twice was shortlisted: the novels “accidentally” (2005) and “Hotel – the world” (2001).

“long list” of the Booker Prize included 13 names. Winner of the prestigious award will be known on October 14 at a ceremony in London. The winner will receive a cash prize of 50,000 pounds sterling, and the finalists – 2500 pounds.

Booker Prize was first awarded in 1969. Since 2002, her sponsor’s group companies Man, because in English the full official name of the award sounds like The Man Booker Prize.

The winners of the Booker Prize became, in particular, William Goldberg, Iris Murdoch, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Yann Martel, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie.