Posted by Sam Hartmann on September 23, 2009
The Man Booker prize for Fiction 2009 shortlist has been announced. First awarded in 1969 this prize rewards the very best fiction book of the year. Having the power to transform the lives of it's winners, it is considered the world's most important literary award.
Enough background, down to the important stuff. The six books shortlisted from the longlist of 13 are:
• A S Byatt The Children's Book
• J M Coetzee Summertime
• Adam Foulds The Quickening Maze
• Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall
• Simon Mawer The Glass Room
• Sarah Waters The Little Stranger
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