Longlist for Lost Man Booker announced
Longlist for Lost Man Booker announced
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By Tom Powell. |  |
Monday, 01, Feb 2010 11:47
By Lewis Bazley.
The likes of Melvyn Bragg and David Lodge could receive a retrospective Booker Prize after a longlist of 22 books was unveiled for a new one-off award.
The Lost Man Booker Prize longlist has been revealed as organisers look to honour a host of titles which missed out on a Booker Prize nomination due to a rule change in the early 70s.
In 1971, two years after its inception, the Booker Prize was no longer awarded retrospectively but instead given to the best novel of that year.
With the date of the awards ceremony moved from April to November, a year's worth of books published in 1970 missed out on consideration for the most prestigious literary award in Britain.
A panel of three judges - journalist Rachel Cooke, ITN newsreader Katie Derham and poet and novelist Tobias Hill - have now been appointed to select a shortlist of six books from the 22-strong longlist.
The longlist includes works by Christy Brown, Iris Murdoch and Susan Hill with the shortlist to be announced in March.
Ion Trewin, literary director of the Man Booker Prize, commented: "Our longlist demonstrates that 1970 was a remarkable year for fiction written in English. Recognition for these novels and the eventual winner is long overdue."
The longlist for the Lost Man Booker Prize is:
Brian Aldiss, The Hand Reared Boy
HE Bates, A Little Of What You Fancy?
Nina Bawden, The Birds On The Trees
Melvyn Bragg, A Place In England
Christy Brown, Down All The Days
Len Deighton, Bomber
JG Farrell, Troubles
Elaine Feinstein, The Circle
Shirley Hazzard, The Bay Of Noon
Reginald Hill, A Clubbable Woman
Susan Hill, I'm The King Of The Castle
Francis King, A Domestic Animal
Margaret Laurence, The Fire Dwellers
David Lodge, Out Of The Shelter
Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat
Shiva Naipaul, Fireflies
Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander
Joe Orton, Head To Toe
Mary Renault, Fire From Heaven
Ruth Rendell, A Guilty Thing Surprised
Muriel Spark, The Driver's Seat
Patrick White, The Vivisector