2015 Man Booker Prize

Literary award The 2015 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 13 October 2015.http://www.themanbookerprize.com/man-booker-prize-2015 Man Booker 2015 8 August 2015 Man Booker Prize dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150929134834/http://themanbookerprize.com/man-booker-prize-2015 29 September 2015 A longlist of thirteen titles was announced on 29 July, narrowed down to a shortlist of six titles on 15 September.Pulitzer winner makes Booker Prize shortlist https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34255672 BBC News 15 September 2015 15 September 2015 Judging panel Michael Wood (chair) Ellah Wakatama Allfrey John Burnside Sam Leith Frances OsborneBrown Mark Man Booker prize 2015: US literary agent among 13 writers on longlist https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/29/man-booker-prize-2015-bill-clegg-longlist-13-writers The Guardian 8 August 2015 29 July 2015 Nominees (shortlist) Author Title Genre(s) Country PublisherMarlon JamesA Brief History of Seven Killings Novel Jamaica Riverhead BooksHanya YanagiharaA Little Life Novel US Doubleday BooksAnne TylerA Spool of Blue Thread Novel US Knopf Publishing GroupTom McCarthySatin Island Novel UK Jonathan CapeChigozie ObiomaThe Fishermen Novel Nigeria Little, Brown and CompanySunjeev SahotaThe Year of the Runaways Novel UK Picador Nominees (longlist) Author Title Genre(s) Country PublisherMarlon JamesA Brief History of Seven Killings Novel Jamaica Riverhead BooksHanya YanagiharaA Little Life Novel US Doubleday BooksAnne TylerA Spool of Blue Thread Novel US Knopf Publishing GroupBill CleggDid You Ever Have a Family Novel US Gallery/ScoutMarilynne RobinsonLila Novel US Virago PressTom McCarthySatin Island Novel UK Alfred A. KnopfAnuradha RoySleeping on Jupiter Novel India QuercusAnna SmaillThe Chimes Novel New Zealand Hodder & StoughtonChigozie ObiomaThe Fishermen Novel Nigeria Little, Brown and CompanyAnne EnrightThe Green Road Novel Ireland McClelland & StewartAndrew O'HaganThe Illuminations Novel UK Macmillan PublishersLaila LalamiThe Moor's Account Novel US Pantheon BooksSunjeev SahotaThe 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.Man Booker Prize 2015: Marlon James wins for A Brief History of Seven Killings https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34511049 BBC News 13 October 2015https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/13/marlon-james-wins-the-man-booker-prize-2015 Marlon James wins the Man Booker prize 2015 13 October 2015 Guardian 14 October 2015https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/booker-prize/marlon-james-2015-winner-comment/ A Brief History of Seven Killings is violent, shocking - and a worthy winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize 13 October 2015 Daily Telegraph 14 October 2015 See also List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction References Man Booker Category:Booker Prizes by year Category:2015 awards in the United Kingdom