The finalists will be announced Sept. 6
Leila Mottley, the author of 'Nightcrawling,' is the youngest writer to be included in the Booker Prize longlist.LONDON — Best-selling American writers Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth Strout, and Leila Mottley are among 13 authors in the running for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction.Oh William!, are among six books by Americans on the longlist for the 50,000 pound prize. The list announced Tuesday also includes authors from Britain, Ireland, Sri Lanka, and Zimbabwe.
At 20, Mottley is the youngest-ever Booker Prize contender. A tale of racism and sexual exploitation written when she was still a teenager,British fantasy author Alan Garner, on the list forFive awards judges selected the contenders from 169 books submitted by publishers. Former British Museum director Neil MacGregor, who is chairing the judging panel, said the list “offers story, fable and parable, fantasy, mystery, meditation, and thriller.
Mottley is one of three debut novelists are on the list, alongside Britain’s Maddie Mortimer and American author Selby Wynn Schwartz . Strout and Fowler have both been Booker contenders before. Other repeat finalists are Zimbabwe’s NoViolet Bulawayo, for animal fable
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