27 July 2017
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Man Booker Prize 2017 longlist
The list includes Arundhati Roy's follow-up to 1997's Booker-winning The God of Small Things and Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead
The list includes Arundhati Roy's follow-up to 1997's Booker-winning The God of Small Things and Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead
Arundhati Roy, whose second novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, published 20 years after her debut, is the only author on the longlist to have previously won the Booker. Fellow longlistees Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Mohsin Hamid and Sebastian Barry have all been shortlisted. American author Colson Whitehead has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Underground Railroad, which is longlisted for this year's Booker.
The longlist - the traditional Booker baker's dozen – is:
• 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster
• Days Without End, Sebastian Barry
• History of Wolves, Emily Fridlund
• Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
• Solar Bones, Mike McCormack
• Reservoir 13, Jon McGregor
• Elmet by Fiona Mozley
• The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy
• Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
• Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie
• Autumn, Ali Smith
• Swing Time, Zadie Smith
• The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
The shortlist will be announced on 13 September, and the winner on 17 October.
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