The shortlist for the 2009 Man Booker Prize has been announced, with no Irish authors among the six finalists.
Ed O'Loughlin ('Not Untrue & Not Unkind'), Colm Tóibín ('Brooklyn') and William Trevor ('Love and Summer') had been among the 13 authors on the longlist.
The six shortlisted authors are: A S Byatt ('The Children's Book'), J M Coetzee ('Summertime'), Adam Foulds ('The Quickening Maze'), Hilary Mantel ('Wolf Hall'), Simon Mawer ('The Glass Room') and Sarah Waters ('The Little Stranger').
Coetzee previously won the Man Booker Prize in 1999 for 'Disgrace' and in 1983 for 'Life & Times of Michael K'.
Byatt won the Man Booker Prize in 1990 for 'Possession'.
This year's winner will be announced on Tuesday, 6 October in London.
