Man Booker Prize 2011 fiction longlist announced today

Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:48am by sernabad

Thirteen novels are on the Man Booker Prize fiction longlist for 2011. The Booker, the leading literary prize in the English speaking world for fiction, comes with a £50,000 purse.

This year's longlist includes:

Canadian novelist, Alan Hollinghurst, for The Stranger's Child, a layered novel set in WWI, which tracks the power of a poem, written by a fallen soldier, which has unearths a long-reaching mystery . Hollinghurst won the Booker in 2004 for The Line of Beauty.

The Sisters Brothers, written by another Canadian, Patrick De Witt, is a dark comedy about California Gold Rush Era hitmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, who tear across the country after their elusive target, Hermann Kermit Warm.

First-time British noveliest, Yvette Edwards, is already being compared to Monica Ali and Zadie Smith for A Cupboard Full of Coats, a powerful novel of Jinx and Lemon, two childhood friends trying to unravel the secrets behind the murder of Jinx's mother.

We will post the shortlist on Tuesday, September 6. The winner will be announced on Tuesday, October 18 on the BBC News at 10 p.m.