--- description: Only two British novelists made the cut title: 2015 Man Booker Shortlist Is Announced image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt737e5f2f7281cd24/6988639ccd1bba517b6fd2a4/a-little-life.jpeg?branch=production&width=640&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Books](/tag/books/) ## Books Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # 2015 Man Booker Prize Shortlist Is Announced by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 15, 2015 1:58 PM CUT  by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 15, 2015 1:58 PM CUT The shortlist for the 2015 Man Booker Prize has been announced, whittling down the contenders to a total of six—only two of them British. For the second year, the prestigious literary prize is open to any book published in English in the U.K., rather than just those written by authors from the U.K., the Commonwealth, Ireland and Zimbabwe. The shortlist includes two American authors: Hanya Yanagihara and Anne Tyler. This is British author Tom McCarthy’s second time on the shortlist. Marlon James (Jamaica) — [_A Brief History of Seven Killings_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/159448600X/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") Tom McCarthy (U.K.) — [_Satin Island_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307593959/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria) — [_The Fishermen_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0957548850/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") Sunjeev Sahota (U.K.) — [_The Year of the Runaways_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1101946105/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") Anne Tyler (U.S.) — [_A Spool of Blue Thread_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1101874279/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") Hanya Yanagihara (U.S.) — [_A Little Life_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385539258/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") Each of these finalists will receive £2,500 ($3,848). The Man Booker winner, who gets an additional £50,000 ($76,955), will be announced on Oct. 13\. Check out the longlist [here](http://time.com/3976615/man-booker-longlist-2015/ "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4034604/2015-man-booker-prize-shortlist/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4034604/2015-man-booker-prize-shortlist/"},"headline":"2015 Man Booker Prize Shortlist Is Announced","datePublished":"2015-09-15T13:58:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:56:30.338Z","description":"Only two British novelists made the cut","url":"https://time.com/4034604/2015-man-booker-prize-shortlist/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt737e5f2f7281cd24/6988639ccd1bba517b6fd2a4/a-little-life.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt737e5f2f7281cd24/6988639ccd1bba517b6fd2a4/a-little-life.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"a-little-life","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4034604/2015-man-booker-prize-shortlist/","name":"2015 Man Booker Prize Shortlist Is Announced"}}]}] ```