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By Nathan Whitlock
July 29, 2008
10:36 AM

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Man Booker 2008 longlist

The Man Booker Prize has released its longlist for 2008:

  • The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
  • Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
  • The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
  • From A to X by John Berger
  • The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
  • Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
  • The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
  • A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
  • The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
  • Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
  • The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
  • Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
  • A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz

No Canadians this year. And word has it that Rushdie has ordered vanity plates that read “MN BKR MN.”

  • angel guerra

    As to Rushdie, living proof that:

    Honours dishonour. Titles degrade. Gustave Flaubert

  • http://idenford.blogspot.com/2008/07/im-not-happy-camper-about-this-today.html Iden Ford

    Isn’t interesting that publishers don’t give a damn about having their authors covers copy someone else’s.
    Apparently this happens a lot.
    Surely Andrew Taylor’s editor could have mad a little more effort over finding another jacket that did not look exactly like Vices of My Blood by Maureen Jennings.
    Link here to see what I mean
    http://idenford.blogspot.com/2008/07/im-not-happy-camper-about-this-today.html

  • http://idenford.blogspot.com/2008/07/im-not-happy-camper-about-this-today.html Iden Ford

    oops wrong location to post this, oh well.
    I hate awards and think them completely unecessary. It gives bored people something to do.

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