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# Here Is the 2016 Man Booker Prize Longlist

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## Mahita Gajanan


Gajanan is an editor at TIME.

Jul 27, 2016 1:46 PM UTC

by 

[Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/)


## Mahita Gajanan


Gajanan is an editor at TIME.

Jul 27, 2016 1:46 PM UTC

The 2016 Man Booker Prize longlist is here, and this year’s selection of 13 novels is roughly half men (seven) and half women (six). Although the prize was historically limited to authors from the U.K, the Commonwealth, Ireland and Zimbabwe, 2016 is the third year it is open to anyone writing in English and published in the U.K. The longlist includes five American writers, the [same number as last year](http://time.com/3976615/man-booker-longlist-2015/).

On the list is author J.M. Coetzee, who has won the Man Booker Prize twice before, once in 1983 for his novel _Life & Times of Michael K_ and again in 1999 with the novel _Disgrace_. Other longlisters include Deborah Levy, who was previously shortlisted for the prize, and A.L. Kennedy, a prize judge in 1996\. The list also includes four debut novels: _Hystopia_ by David Means, _The Many_ by Wyl Menmuir, _Eileen_ by Ottessa Moshfegh and _Work Like Any Other_ by Virginia Reeves.

Paul Beatty (US) – _The Sellout_ 

J.M. Coetzee (South African-Australian) – _The Schooldays of Jesus_ 

A.L. Kennedy (UK) – _Serious Sweet_ 

Deborah Levy (UK) – _Hot Milk_ 

Graeme Macrae Burnet (UK) – _His Bloody Project_ 

Ian McGuire (UK) – _The North Water_ 

David Means (US) – _Hystopia_ 

Wyl Menmuir (UK) – _The Many_ 

Ottessa Moshfegh (US) – _Eileen_ 

Virginia Reeves (US) – _Work Like Any Other_ 

Elizabeth Strout (US) – _My Name Is Lucy Barton_

David Szalay (Canada-UK) – _All That Man Is_ 

Madeleine Thien (Canada) – _Do Not Say We Have Nothing_ 

The shortlist of six books will be announced Sept. 13 and the winner will be announced Oct. 25\. Shortlisted authors will each receive £2,500 and the winner will get an additional £50,000\.

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