Sunday, February 16, 2014

Folio Prize: American authors dominate shortlist for new Man Booker rival - News - Books - The Independent

Folio Prize: American authors dominate shortlist for new Man Booker rival - News - Books - The Independent




The eight books in contention for this year’s prize are:


Red Doc by Anne Carson (Random House/Jonathan Cape)

Schroder by Amity Gaige (Faber & Faber)

Last Friends by Jane Gardam (Little, Brown)

Benediction by Kent Haruf (Picador)

The Flame Throwers by Rachel Kushner (Random House/Harvill Secker)

A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride (Galley Beggar Press)

A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava (Maclehose Editions)

Tenth of December by George Saunders (Bloomsbury)


The full press release can be read here.



 http://www.thefolioprize.com/2014/02/the-2014-folio-prize-shortlist-is-announced/

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