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Booker Shortlist

The shortlist for the Man Booker Prize was announced yesterday afternoon, and it includes: Darkmans by Nicola Barker, The Gathering by Anne Enright, The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones, On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, and Animal’s People by Indra Sinha. Several newspapers and a few bookies are giving McEwan as the favorite. Of the six finalists, I have read only Hamid; I have McEwan’s new novel, but haven’t gotten to it yet. The winner will be announced in October.



Caine Prize 2006 Anthology

Last year, my story “The Fanatic” was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing, along with pieces by Sefi Atta, Darrel Bristow-Bovey, Muthoni Garland, and Mary Watson. The finalists’ work appears in a new anthology, titled Jungfrau and Other Short Stories, and it can be ordered from Amazon.co.uk. I believe the book also contains selected stories by writers who have attended the annual Caine Prize workshop, held in Kenya in mid-spring. (There’s a brief mention of this in Boyd Tonkin’s column in the Independent.)



IMPAC Dublin Shortlist

As widely reported, the shortlist for the 2007 IMPAC Dublin Awards has been announced. And the finalists are:

Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Short Day Dying by Peter Hobbs
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson, translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie

It’s a strong list, but I’m somewhat disappointed that neither Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Desertion nor Ismail Kadare’s The Successor made the cut. (See the longlist here.)




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