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London - The long-list for Britain's prestigious Man Booker Prize was announced on Tuesday after being selected by a panel of judges headed by a former MI5 intelligence chief.
The list of 13, picked from a total of 138 books, includes former winner Alan Hollinghurst, who won the Booker in 2004 with The Line of Beauty, and three-time finalist Julian Barnes.
Stella Rimington, the former director-general of Britain's domestic security agency MI5 and an author herself, is chairing the panel of five judges.
"We are delighted by the quality and breadth of our long-list, which emerged from an impassioned discussion. The list ranges from the Wild West to multi-ethnic London via post-Cold War Moscow and Bucharest," she said.
The long-list includes four first-time novelists, Stephen Kelman, AD Miller, Yvvette Edwards and Patrick McGuinness.
Book sales
Canadian writers also feature prominently, with three little known writers - Alison Pick, Patrick deWitt and Esi Edugyan - making the list.
The 13 will be whittled down to a shortlist of six authors in September, with the winner to be announced on October 18.
One of the highest-profile awards in English language literature, the £50 000 annual Booker Prize is awarded for the best work of fiction by an author from the Commonwealth, the Republic of Ireland or Zimbabwe.
Contenders must have been published in the past year and write in English. The prize all but guarantees an upsurge in book sales.
Last year's prize was won by Howard Jacobson for The Finkler Question, which has sold more than 250 000 copies in Britain.
The long list for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction is:
Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending
Sebastian Barry - On Canaan's Side
Carol Birch - Jamrach's Menagerie
Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers
Esi Edugyan - Half Blood Blues
Yvvette Edwards - A Cupboard Full of Coats
Alan Hollinghurst - The Stranger's Child
Stephen Kelman - Pigeon English
Patrick McGuinness - The Last Hundred Days
AD Miller – Snowdrops
Alison Pick - Far to Go
Jane Rogers - The Testament of Jessie Lamb
DJ Taylor - Derby Day
The list of 13, picked from a total of 138 books, includes former winner Alan Hollinghurst, who won the Booker in 2004 with The Line of Beauty, and three-time finalist Julian Barnes.
Stella Rimington, the former director-general of Britain's domestic security agency MI5 and an author herself, is chairing the panel of five judges.
"We are delighted by the quality and breadth of our long-list, which emerged from an impassioned discussion. The list ranges from the Wild West to multi-ethnic London via post-Cold War Moscow and Bucharest," she said.
The long-list includes four first-time novelists, Stephen Kelman, AD Miller, Yvvette Edwards and Patrick McGuinness.
Book sales
Canadian writers also feature prominently, with three little known writers - Alison Pick, Patrick deWitt and Esi Edugyan - making the list.
The 13 will be whittled down to a shortlist of six authors in September, with the winner to be announced on October 18.
One of the highest-profile awards in English language literature, the £50 000 annual Booker Prize is awarded for the best work of fiction by an author from the Commonwealth, the Republic of Ireland or Zimbabwe.
Contenders must have been published in the past year and write in English. The prize all but guarantees an upsurge in book sales.
Last year's prize was won by Howard Jacobson for The Finkler Question, which has sold more than 250 000 copies in Britain.
The long list for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction is:
Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending
Sebastian Barry - On Canaan's Side
Carol Birch - Jamrach's Menagerie
Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers
Esi Edugyan - Half Blood Blues
Yvvette Edwards - A Cupboard Full of Coats
Alan Hollinghurst - The Stranger's Child
Stephen Kelman - Pigeon English
Patrick McGuinness - The Last Hundred Days
AD Miller – Snowdrops
Alison Pick - Far to Go
Jane Rogers - The Testament of Jessie Lamb
DJ Taylor - Derby Day
