Five of the six authors are women — the largest number in the prize’s 55-year history
The winner will be announced on November 12 at a ceremony in London.
Founded in 1969, the Booker Prize celebrates the best fiction and is open to novels from any country published in the U.K. and Ireland.
Nominations:
American writers Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner
Britain’s Samantha Harvey, for Orbital; Canada’s Anne Michaels for Held; Australia’s Charlotte Wood for Stone Yard Devotional; and Yael van der Wouden — the first Dutch author to be shortlisted for the Booker — for her debut, The Safekeep
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