LONDON, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Works by authors Marlon James, Tom McCarthy, Chigozie Obioma, Sunjeev Sahota, Anne Tyler and Hanya Yanagihara have been shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
The novels that are up for the prestigious literary award are James' A Brief History of Seven Killings, McCarthy's Satin Island, Obioma's The Fishermen, Sahota's The Year of the Runaways, Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread and Yanagihara's A Little Life.