Man Booker Prize Finalists

The Man Booker Prize is the UK’s annual presentation of the best in the year’s fiction. The books must be written in English (no translations) and not self-published. The authors must be from the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. This summer the Man Booker Prize presented the Longlist of fiction titles, then whittled it down to the Shortlist – this year it consists of six titles:

• Darkmans, by Nicola Barker *
• The Gathering, by Anne Enright *
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
• Mister Pip, by Lloyd Jones
• On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan
• Animal’s People, by Indra Sinha *

* Coming soon to Perrot

The Booker Prize winner will be announced on October 16th, 2007.