Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro is among 13 authors on this year's Booker Prize for Fiction longlist, which was announced this (Tuesday) morning.
The prize is open to writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK or Ireland. This year's list includes Nobel Laureate and former winner of the prize Ishiguro, as well as previously shortlisted authors Damon Galgut, Richard Powers and Sunjeev Sahota.
There are no Irish authors on the list this year.
The shortlist of six books will be announced on Tuesday 14 September. The shortlisted authors each receive £2,500 and a specially-bound edition of their book.
The 2021 winner will be announced on Wednesday 3 November in an award ceremony held in partnership with the BBC at Broadcasting House's Radio Theatre and the winning author will receive £50,000.
The 2021 longlist, or 'The Booker Dozen’, of 13 novels, is:
Anuk Arudpragasam (Sri Lankan) - A Passage North (Granta Books, Granta Publications)
Rachel Cusk (British/Canadian) - Second Place (Faber)
Damon Galgut (South African) - The Promise (Chatto & Windus, Vintage, PRH)
Nathan Harris (American) - The Sweetness of Water (Tinder Press, Headline, Hachette Book Group)
Kazuo Ishiguro (British) - Klara and the Sun (Faber)
Karen Jennings (South African) - An Island (Holland House Books)
Mary Lawson (Canadian) - A Town Called Solace (Chatto & Windus, Vintage, PRH)
Patricia Lockwood (American) - No One is Talking About This (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)
Nadifa Mohamed (British/Somali) - The Fortune Men (Viking, Penguin General, PRH)
Richard Powers (American) Bewilderment (William Heinemann, PRH)
Sunjeev Sahota (British) - China Room (Harvill Secker, Vintage, PRH)
Maggie Shipstead (American) - Great Circle (Doubleday, Transworld Publishers, PRH)
Francis Spufford (British) - Light Perpetual (Faber)
