{"id":17862,"date":"2017-09-15T22:53:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T05:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=17862"},"modified":"2017-09-15T22:53:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T05:53:53","slug":"man-booker-prize-2017-shortlist-arundhati-roy-misses-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/man-booker-prize-2017-shortlist-arundhati-roy-misses-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Booker Prize 2017 Shortlist: Arundhati Roy Misses Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

File photo of Arundhati Roy speaking at the 3rd Annual Norman Mailer Center Gala, at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Nov. 8, 2011, in New York City. (AFP\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Authors from the UK and the U.S. dominated the 2017 Man Booker Prize shortlist announced Sept. 13, as the only long-listed Indian writer, Arundhati Roy, failed to make the cut, writes Aditi Khanna.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Roy, who won the literary award worth \u00a350,000 for her debut book \u2018The God of Small Things\u2019 in 1997, had featured on the long-list for her latest novel \u2018The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.\u2019<\/p>\n

The book was described as \u201ca rich and vital book\u201d that \u201ccomes from the bowels of India\u201d by the judges.<\/p>\n

The short-list includes American authors Paul Auster for \u201c4321,\u201d Emily Fridlund for \u201cHistory of Wolves,\u201d and George Saunders for \u201cLincoln in the Bardo.\u201d The British authors include Pakistan-born Mohsin Hamid for \u201cExit West,\u201d Fiona Mozley for \u201cElmet\u201d and Ali Smith for \u201cAutumn.\u201d<\/p>\n

The final six will now battle for the coveted award to be announced on October 17 at Guildhall in London.<\/p>\n

The shortlist, which features three women and three men, covers a wide range of subjects, from the struggle of a family trying to retain its self-sufficiency in rural England to an amorous tale of two refugees seeking to flee an unnamed city in the throes of civil war.<\/p>\n

Two first-time female writers Fridlund and Mozley are joined by two previously shortlisted authors, Hamid, who had been short-listed in 2007 for \u201cThe Reluctant Fundamentalist,\u201d and Smith, who made the cut for the fourth time.<\/p>\n

Mozley, a part-time worker at a UK bookshop, is also the youngest author on the list, aged 29.<\/p>\n

The 2017 judging panel, led by Baroness Lola Young, said the short-listed novels, each in their own way, challenge and subtly shift preconceptions about the nature of love, about the experience of time, about questions of identity and even death.<\/p>\n

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Copies of writer Arundhati Roy’s novel \u201cThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness\u201d are stacked up at a book store in New Delhi, June 6. Arundhati Roy’s eagerly-awaited second novel went on sale June 6, two decades after her prize-winning debut “The God of Small Things” propelled her to global fame and launched her career as an outspoken critic of injustice. (Money Sharma\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWith six unique and intrepid books that collectively push against the borders of convention, this year\u2019s shortlist both acknowledges established authors and introduces new voices to the literary stage,\u201d Young said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlayful, sincere, unsettling, fierce: here is a group of novels grown from tradition but also radical and contemporary.<\/p>\n

The emotional, cultural, political and intellectual range of these books is remarkable, and the ways in which they challenge our thinking is a testament to the power of literature,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n

\u201c4321\u201d by Auster, who turned 70 this year, is the longest novel on the shortlist at 866 pages and, according to the author, took three and a half years, working six and a half days a week, to write.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe list represents a celebration of exceptional literary talent, ranging from established novelists to debut writers, that we are honored to support,\u201d said Luke Ellis, CEO of investment management firm Man Group and sponsors of the prize.<\/p>\n

The shortlisted authors each will receive \u00a32,500 and a specially bound edition of their book.<\/p>\n

Established in 1969, the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, awards writers of any nationality, writing in English and published in the UK.<\/p>\n

This is the fourth year that the prize has been open to writers of any nationality whose books are published in the UK.<\/p>\n

After the rules were changed in 2013 to embrace the English language \u201cin all its vigor, its vitality, its versatility and its glory,\u201d several Indian writers including Roy, Aravind Adiga and Salman Rushdie have won the prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

File photo of Arundhati Roy speaking at the 3rd Annual Norman Mailer Center Gala, at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Nov. 8, 2011, in New York City. (AFP\/Getty Images) Authors from the UK and the U.S. dominated the 2017 Man Booker Prize shortlist announced Sept. 13, as the only long-listed Indian writer, Arundhati Roy, failed to…<\/p>\n

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