BOOK AWARDS
Man Booker prize 2004
http://www.themanbookerprize.com
Awarded in October each year, the prize is now officially called the Man Booker Prize, in honour of its sponsor until 2006, global investment broker Man Group while retaining the name of its original sponsor, food distribution firm Booker, which established the prize in 1969 to encourage interest in contemporary fiction.
Awarded to the best full-length novel of the year, the prize is open to authors from the UK, Ireland and the Commonwealth, the winner receiving £50,000, with £2,500 for each of the six shortlisted authors. This year's longlist of 23 books was chosen from a total of 117 entries.
Chris Smith announced as Chair of Judges for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2004
The Rt Hon. Chris Smith MP announced as the Chair of Judges for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2004. Chris Smith MP comments: “Judging the Man Booker Prize is going to present a formidable challenge. Not only is there the sheer quantity of reading to be done, but the quality is going to be high, and some very difficult decisions are going to have to be made. But it’s a challenge that I relish, and I’m looking forward to ten months of reading with great anticipation.”
The remaining four members of the 2004 Man Booker Prize judging panel will be announced shortly. The shortlist will be announced in September, and the winner at an awards ceremony in October 2004.
Winner 2004 (announced mid October)
Alan Hollinghurst with The Line of Beauty (Picador) 033048320x
Shortlist (announced mid-September)
The shortlist for the Booker Prize 2004 has been announced as:
Achmat Dangor with Bitter Fruit (Atlantic Books)
Sarah Hall with The Electric Michelangelo (Faber & Faber)
Alan Hollinghurst with The Line of Beauty (Picador)
David Mitchell with Cloud Atlas (Sceptre)
Colm Tóibín with The Master (Picador)
Gerard Woodward with I'll go to Bed at Noon (Chatto & Windus)
Longlist (announced mid August)
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Purple Hibiscus | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Fourth Estate | 0007176112 |
| Maps for Lost Lovers | Nadeem Aslam | Faber & Faber | 0571221807 |
| Clear: A Transparent Novel | Nicola Barker | Fourth Estate | 000719241x |
| The Island Walkers | John Bemrose | John Murray | 0719566592 |
| Havoc, in its Third Year | Ronan Bennett | Bloomsbury | 0747222118 |
| Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell | Susanna Clarke | Bloomsbury | 0747570558 |
| Always the Sun | Neil Cross | Scribner | 0743231392 |
| Bitter Fruit | Achmat Dangor | Atlantic Books | 1843541998 |
| Becoming Strangers | Louise Dean | Scribner | 0743239997 |
| A Blade of Grass | Lewis Desoto | Maia Press | 1904559077 |
| The Electric Michelangelo | Sarah Hall | Faber & Faber | 0571219292 |
| Cooking with Fernet Branca | James Hamilton Paterson | Faber & Faber | 0571220908 |
| The Honeymoon | Justin Haythe | Picador | 0330419889 |
| The Great Fire | Shirley Hazzard | Virago | 1860498906 |
| Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst | Picador | 033048320x |
| Sixty Lights | Gail Jones | Harvill Press | 1843431955 |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | Sceptre | 0340822775 |
| Unnumbered | Sam North | Scribner | 0745328503 |
| Snowleg | Nicholas Shakespeare | Harvill Press | 1843431580 |
| Cherry | Matt Thorne | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | 0297829092 |
| The Master | Colm Toibin | Picador | 0330485652 |
| I'll go to Bed at Noon | Gerard Woodward | Chatto & Windus | 0701171189 |
