Among a field of largely unknowns, the bookies’ favourite to win this year’s Man Booker Prize – to be announced in London on Tuesday night (Wednesday morning AEDT) – is firming as Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life.
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Bookmakers are predicting a two way shoot-out between acclaimed Hawaiian novelist Hanya Yanagihara’s “A Little Life” and Derby’s Sunjeev Sahota’s “The Year of the Runaways” to win today’s 2015 Man Booker Prize.
It is the second year the prize is open to all authors writing in English, regardless of nationality.
“Only on rare occasions does celebration come so closely aligned with regret, ” the Chair of Judges Michael Wood declared, announcing the shortlist a month ago. He said that “A Little Life is really a middlebrow gothic sensation, a commercial read for our times, but deficient in nearly all the qualities that make lasting fiction”. Yanagihara is one of six short-listed authors for the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
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Australian author Richard Flanagan won last year’s prize for his wartime novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Also on the list are British writer Tom McCarthy’s “Satin Island”, about a digital denizen adrift on a sea of information, and “The Fishermen”, by Nigeria’s Chigozie Obioma, in which a family is destroyed by a prophecy of fratricide. Obioma is one of six shortlisted authors of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and the victor will be announced Tuesday October 13.
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A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James spins out from the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976 into a multi-layered, colourful account of Jamaican politics. James is one of six short-listed authors of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
