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Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2015
Authors on the shortlist for this year's Man Booker prize talk about their nominated books.
Tom McCarthy, author of Satin Island
The inspiration for the starting point of McCarthy's oblique novel came from a dream.
Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life
Yanagihara's epic American novel has drawn huge critical acclaim and some controversy.
Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
James's novel offers a cacophonous exploration of Jamaica in the 1970s.
Sunjeev Sahota, author of The Year of the Runaways
Sahota’s novel brings the story of Indian migrants in Britain into sharp focus.
Anne Tyler, author of A Spool of Blue Thread
Tyler’s finely tuned portrait of domestic life across several generations.
Chigozie Obioma, author of The Fishermen
African oral tradition is melded with the novel in Obioma’s tragic tale of four brothers.
