2019 Man Booker Prize Longlist
Margaret Atwood (Canada), The Testaments (Vintage, Chatto & Windus)
Read Atwood on how she came to write The Handmaid’s Tale or read a “walking interview” with her here.
Kevin Barry (Ireland), Night Boat to Tangier (Canongate Books)
Read one of Barry’s short stories, or an interview with Barry here.
Oyinkan Braithwaite (UK/Nigeria), My Sister, The Serial Killer (Atlantic Books)
Listen to an interview with Braithwaite here.
Lucy Ellmann (USA/UK), Ducks, Newburyport (Galley Beggar Press)
Read an interview with Ellmann here.
Bernardine Evaristo (UK), Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton)
Read an interview with Evaristo here.
John Lanchester (UK), The Wall (Faber & Faber)
Read Lanchester in conversation with Joseph O’Neill about the fate of humanity here.
Deborah Levy (UK), The Man Who Saw Everything (Hamish Hamilton)
Find out the five most important books in Levy’s life.
Valeria Luiselli (Mexico/Italy), Lost Children Archive (4th Estate)
Read Luiselli on the world after the 2016 US election, or on the choices people make when coming to America, or read an interview with her here.
Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria), An Orchestra of Minorities (Little Brown)
Read Obioma on the book that formed him here.
Max Porter (UK), Lanny (Faber & Faber)
Read Max Porter and Catherine Lacey in conversation (about death, writing, and musical theater) here.
Salman Rushdie (UK/India), Quichotte (Jonathan Cape)
Find out the books that have been most important to Rushdie’s life, or listen to a great interview with him here.
Elif Shafak (UK/Turkey), 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (Viking)
Read Shafak on ways of knowing, her grandmother, and the other women in her life.
Jeanette Winterson (UK), Frankissstein (Jonathan Cape)