De shortlist van de Man Booker Prize 2015 is zojuist bekendgemaakt. Genomineerd zijn:

Satin Island – Tom McCarthy

A Brief History of Seven Killings – Marlon James

A Spool of Blue Thread – Anne Tyler

The Year of the Runaways – Sunjeev Sahota

A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara

The Fishermen – Chigozie Obioma

De jury:

The writers on the shortlist present an extraordinary range of approaches to fiction. They come from very different cultures and are themselves at very different stages of their careers.

De bekendmaking van de winnaar volgt op 13 oktober.