Six Finalists for Man Booker Prize Are Named

September 11, 2012, 12:43 pm

By JULIE BOSMAN

Six authors were named on Tuesday to the annual shortlist of candidates for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, the most significant literary award in Britain.

The authors on the list are:

• Tan Twan Eng, for “The Garden of Evening Mists” (Myrmidon Books)
• Deborah Levy, for “Swimming Home” (And Other Stories/Faber & Faber)
• Hilary Mantel, for “Bring Up the Bodies” (Fourth Estate)
• Alison Moore, for “The Lighthouse” (Salt)
• Will Self, for “Umbrella” (Bloomsbury)
• Jeet Thayil, for “Narcopolis” (Faber & Faber)

The winner of the prize - which is open to writers from Britain, Ireland or one of the Commonwealth nations - will be nam ed at a ceremony in London on Oct. 16 and receive a cash prize of £50,000, or about $80,000.

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