2015 Man Booker Prize

The 2015 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 13 October 2015.[1] A longlist of thirteen titles was announced on 29 July, narrowed down to a shortlist of six titles on 15 September.[2]

Judging panel

Nominees (shortlist)
Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher
Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings Novel Jamaica Riverhead Books
Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life Novel US Doubleday Books
Anne Tyler A Spool of Blue Thread Novel US Knopf Publishing Group
Tom McCarthy Satin Island Novel UK Jonathan Cape
Chigozie Obioma The Fishermen Novel Nigeria Little, Brown and Company
Sunjeev Sahota The Year of the Runaways Novel UK Picador

Nominees (longlist)
Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher
Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings Novel Jamaica Riverhead Books
Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life Novel US Doubleday Books
Anne Tyler A Spool of Blue Thread Novel US Knopf Publishing Group
Bill Clegg Did You Ever Have a Family Novel US Gallery/Scout
Marilynne Robinson Lila Novel US Virago Press
Tom McCarthy Satin Island Novel UK Alfred A. Knopf
Anuradha Roy Sleeping on Jupiter Novel India Quercus
Anna Smaill The Chimes Novel New Zealand Hodder & Stoughton
Chigozie Obioma The Fishermen Novel Nigeria Little, Brown and Company
Anne Enright The Green Road Novel Ireland McClelland & Stewart
Andrew O'Hagan The Illuminations Novel UK Macmillan Publishers
Laila Lalami The Moor's Account Novel US Pantheon Books
Sunjeev Sahota The Year of the Runaways Novel UK Bloomsbury Publishing

Winner

On 13 October, chair judge Michael Wood announced that Jamaican author Marlon James had won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. This is the first time that a Jamaican-born author has won the prize.[4][5][6]

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See also
  • List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction

References
  1. "Man Booker 2015". Man Booker Prize. Archived from the original on 29 September 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  2. "Pulitzer winner makes Booker Prize shortlist". BBC News. 15 September 2015. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  3. Brown, Mark (29 July 2015). "Man Booker prize 2015: US literary agent among 13 writers on longlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  4. "Man Booker Prize 2015: Marlon James wins for A Brief History of Seven Killings". BBC News. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
  5. "Marlon James wins the Man Booker prize 2015". Guardian. 13 October 2015. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
  6. "A Brief History of Seven Killings is violent, shocking - and a worthy winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize". Daily Telegraph. 13 October 2015. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
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