The 2016 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 25 October 2016. The Man Booker dozen of 13 books was announced on 27 July, narrowed down to a shortlist of six titles on 13 September. Paul Beatty was awarded the 2016 Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout, receiving 50,000 pounds ($61,000), and becoming the first American author to be awarded the prize.
Judging panel Amanda Foreman (chair) Jon Day Abdulrazak Gurnah David Harsent Olivia Williams
Nominees
Shortlist Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher Paul Beatty The Sellout Novel US Oneworld Publications Deborah Levy Hot Milk Novel UK Hamish Hamilton Graeme Macrae Burnet His Bloody Project Novel UK Contraband Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen Novel US Jonathan Cape David Szalay All That Man Is Novel UK Jonathan Cape Madeleine Thien Do Not Say We Have Nothing Novel Canada Granta Books
Longlist Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher Paul Beatty The Sellout Novel US Oneworld Publications Deborah Levy Hot Milk Novel UK Hamish Hamilton Graeme Macrae Burnet His Bloody Project Novel UK Contraband Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen Novel US Jonathan Cape David Szalay All That Man Is Novel UK Jonathan Cape Madeleine Thien Do Not Say We Have Nothing Novel Canada Granta Books J. M. Coetzee The Schooldays of Jesus Novel South Africa-Australia Harvill Secker A. L. Kennedy Serious Sweet Novel UK Jonathan Cape Elizabeth Strout My Name Is Lucy Barton Novel US Viking Ian McGuire The North Water Novel UK Scribner UK David Means Hystopia Novel US Faber & Faber Wyl Menmuir The Many Novel Uk Salt Virginia Reeves Work Like Any Other Novel UK Scribner UK
See also List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction
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