What's in initials met Didi Bota (13) - JC en WW halen longlist Booker Prize

De meest prestigieuze Engelse literaire prijs heeft zijn longlist van genomineerden bekendgemaakt. De Zuidafrikaan John Coetzee is genomineerd. Hij won eerder al de Booker Prize voor Disgrace en won ook de Nobelprijs voor Literatuur.

De Ierse dichter en schrijver William Wall is ook genomineerd.

Ook eerdere Booker Prize winnaars Salman Rushdie, Ian Mc Ewan en Kazuo Ishiguro zijn dit jaar genomineerd.

Hieronder de lijst met 17 genomineerden.

1. The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw - Set in Malaysia, it tells the tale of a bold Malaysian businessman during World War II, in the form of a triptych
2. The Sea by John Banville - A tale of coming-of-age, life's end, and other rites of passage at an Irish coastal town
3. Arthur & George by Julian Barnes - A creative book, alternating the tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and George Edalji, and a mystery of sorts
4. A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry - A dark novel about Ireland and the Great War, vignettes of times forgotten and pains endured
5. Slow Man by JM Coetzee - Out in September, this is a tale of meditation on what makes us human, on growing old and about Elizabeth Costello
6. In the Fold by Rachel Cusk - A British comedy of manners and morals
7. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - Deep insights into science, ethics, childhood and boarding schools
8. All For Love by Dan Jacobson - A comic melodrama, if one could describe a book thus, set in the waning days of the Hapsburg Empire.
9. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka - Comic farce among Ukranian immigrants to England
10. Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel - A traveling psychic deconstructs middle-class England
11. Saturday by Ian McEwan - A richly-layered post-9/11, post-Iraq war portrait of the way we are, and were.
12. The People’s Act of Love by James Meek - It is strange that a book due in 2006 would be on this year's list, but critics are blown away by proof copies of this novel set in 1919 Siberia
13. Shalimar The Clown by Salman Rushdie - Salman takes up a tale set in the vales of Kashmir, the assassination of the American ambassador to India, clowns turned terrorists, and weaves in planes crashing into distant towers, Nazi France, and Shalimar's arrival in Los Angeles.
14. The Accidental by Ali Smith - Another 2006 imprint, it deals with an unexpected guest, and a child' vision of the world
15. On Beauty by Zadie Smith - Similar to Howard's End, and set in a world of wars, yet permeated with beauty, such as Rembrandt's paintings
16. This Thing Of Darkness by Harry Thompson - A a historical tale about the 19th century voyages of the Beagle, and Charles Darwin's relationship with Captain Fitzroy, by England's popular television producer
17. This Is The Country by William Wall - Travels through Ireland, finding oneself. and the divide between the city and the country