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Hilary Mantel could become the first British writer to win the Booker Prize twice, after Bring up the Bodies was named on the six-strong shortlist for this year’s award. The judges hailed the second novel in Ms Mantel’s trilogy about the life of Thomas Cromwell as having “even greater mastery” than its predecessor Wolf Hall, which won the Booker in 2009. The shortlist also included Deborah Levy’s first novel in over a decade, a book that had been rejected by traditional publishers, and was funded by an innovative subscription model instead. Click here or on "View Gallery" to see the shortlist in pictures Sir Peter Stothard, chair of the judges and editor of the Times Literary Supplement, said: “This has been an exhilarating year for fiction, the strongest, I would say, for more than a decade.” He defended the choice of Ms Mantel’s work again making the shortlist saying: “It of course drew us into a critical comparison with its predecessor”. Yet, he continued: “The judges this year noted her even greater mastery of method now. Her powerful realism in the separation of past and present, and the vivid depiction of English character and landscape.” Only two writers have won the award twice, and neither were British. Sir Peter said: “The accolade of Peter Carey and JM Coetzee is legitimately there to be won if the novel, not the novelist is deemed the best.” Bookies Ladbrokes immediately installed her as the favourite. Ms Mantel will compete against Will Self, nominated for his book Umbrella. Sir Peter called the pair: “Two of the great established radicals of contemporary literature.” The modernist work, Self’s ninth novel, is about a woman confined to a psychiatric hospital. It has no chapters and paragraph breaks are rare, with reviewers pointing to the influence of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Sir Peter said: “This novel is both moving and draining. The judges placed Umbrella on the shortlist with the conviction that those who stick with it will find it much less difficult than it first seems.” The addition of Ms Levy’s Swimming Home was a surprise as it had initially failed to pick up mainstream publisher, instead turning to And Other Stories. The judges felt it had technical artistry, flowing prose “and a little Gatsby too”. Sir Peter declined to criticise the industry for missing out on a gem, although “I hope they will take some notice of us”. He added: “The beauty of being a Man Booker judge purely and solely on the merits of the text; not how many you think it is going to sell.” At the longlist announcement, Sir Peter said the “new have powered through” and two first novels made it through the shortlist: Alison Moore’s The Lighthouse and Indian poet Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis. It was rounded out by The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng, who had been longlisted in 2007 for his debut novel The Gift of Rain. One judge described its beauty as similar to “slowly clashing icebergs”. The judges, who also comprise Dinah Birch, professor of English literature at the University of Liverpool, Historian and author Amanda Foreman, Downton Abbey actor Dan Stevens and academic Bharat Tandon, took more than three hours to whittle the longlist down. Ms Birch said: “We often disagreed but we never quarrelled. It was quite painful to lose some of the books. It wasn’t a bloodless process by any means.” Sir Peter concluded: “We found the six books most likely to last and repay future re-reading. These are very different books but they show a huge and visible confidence.” The shortlist: - Tan Twan Eng - The Garden Of Evening Mists (Myrmidon Books) - Deborah Levy - Swimming Home (And Other Stories/Faber & Faber) - Hilary Mantel - Bring Up The Bodies (Fourth Estate) - Alison Moore - The Lighthouse (Salt) - Will Self - Umbrella (Bloomsbury) - Jeet Thayil - Narcopolis (Faber & Faber
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Autori su odabrani među 12 kandidata koji su ušli u širi izbor za tu nagradu objavljen u srpnju, a među njima su tri žene, četvero je Britanaca, jedan Indijac, te jedan Malezijac. 'Nakon opetovanog čitanja djela koja su ušla u izvanredan širi izbor, većinu dilema pomogla je razriješiti čista moć proze. Oduševio nas je jezični šok iskazan na toliko različitih načina, te uzbudila snaga i životno definirane vrijednosti sadržane u šest odabranih djela, kao i očigledno povjerenje u ulogu romana u oblikovanju naših riječi i ideja', ističe se u priopćenju predsjednika žirija, urednika književnog dodatka lista Times Petera Stotharda , objavljenom na mrežnim stranicama nagrade Man Booker Jedan od favorita za dobitnika ovogodišnjeg Bookera je 'Bring up the Bodies' Hilary Mantel , nastavak njezina romana 'Wolf Hall', nagrađenog Bookerom 2009. Pobijedi li, postat će prva britanska književnica koja je dva puta dobila tu vrijednu nagradu. 'Bilo je rasprave o prednostima i manama njezina ponovnog napredovanja prema nagradi. Suci su joj ove godine pripisali još veće umijeće pisanja, snage realizma i razdvajanja prošlosti od sadašnjosti, te životan prikaz britanskog mentaliteta i krajobraza', stoji u obrazloženju odluke sudačkog panela koji su uz Stotharda činili književna kritičarka Dinah Birch , povjesničarka i književnica Amanda Foreman , glumac Dan Stevens , te akademik i pisac Bharat Tandon 'Do sada nijedan britanski autor nije dva puta dobio Bookera; ta je čast legitimno na dohvat ruke kad je roman, a ne romanopisac, ocijenjen najboljim', ističe se nadalje u njihovom priopćenju. Dobro primljen roman Britanca Willa Selfa 'Umbrella' , 400 stranica o ženi zatvorenoj u mentalnoj instituciji, također je uvršten u popis. 'Taj je roman istodobno dirljiv i iscrpljujuć', ističu suci. 'Uvrstili smo ga u uži izbor u uvjerenju da će oni koji ga uspiju pročitati do kraja shvatiti da je daleko manje težak nego se to isprva čini.' Slijedi debitantski roman indijskog pjesnika Jeeta Thayila 'Narcopolis' , čija je radnja smještena u opijumske salone Mumbaija i temeljena na njegovom vlastitom ovisničkom iskustvu. 'Poezija obično ne služi kao odskočna daska za roman, no zadivila nas je autorova mirisna proza potekla iz ovisničkih jazbina i stražnjih ulica indijskog najnapučenijeg grada', stoji u obrazloženju sudaca. Po drugi puta u uži izbor ušao je Malezijac Tan Twan Eng , s romanom 'The Garden of Evening Mists' , čiji glavni lik suci opisuju kao lik koji im se najviše urezao u sjećanje u svih 30 tisuća stranica koje su ove godine pročitali, a Britanka Deborah Levy uvrštena je zahvaljujući romanu 'Swimming Home' , za 'tehničko umijeće, sjajnu prozu i intimno prikazivanje gubitka'. Popis zaokružuje Alison Moore s romanom 'The Lighthouse' koji, po mišljenju sudaca, nudi 'sumoran prikaz unutarnjeg krajobraza pisanog s vrlo nisko postavljenom temperaturom i izuzetno oštrim njuhom'. Ime dobitnika bit će objavljeno na posebnoj svečanosti u Londonu 16. listopada. Svi autori uvršteni u uži izbor bit će nagrađeni s 2,5 tisuće funta (3,6 tisuća eura) i po narudžbi napravljenim specijalnim ručno uvezanim izdanjem njegova ili njezina romana, a pobjednik dobija dodatnih 50 tisuća funta Nagrada Man Booker, jedna od najprestižnijih književnih nagrada u svijetu, dodjeljuje se od 1969. svake godine za najbolji neobjavljeni roman na engleskom jeziku. Za nagradu se natječu autori iz zemalja Commonwealtha i Republike Irske.