Hilary Mantel and Will Self pull ahead in Man Booker Prize race
(Read article summary)The winner of the prestigious Man Booker literary prize will be announced in London on the evening of Oct. 16.
The six-author contest for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction, awarded Tuesday night in London, is narrowing down to a two-author horse-race.
First-time nominee journalist Will Self and 2009 winner author Hilary Mantel are favored to win the coveted prize, one of English literature’s most respected. (Any doubts? Just check the myriad betting contests.)
Self is nominated for “Umbrella,” “a modernist tale spanning a century and following Audrey Death, a woman who falls into a coma at the end of World War One only to be awoken decades later when Dr. Zack Busner discovers a cure,” according to Reuters.
The book, which has no chapters and few paragraph breaks, has been alternately described as “sprawling,” “draining,” and “moving.”
