Congratulations to Richard Flanagan, announced today as the 2014 winner of the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. This was the first year American writers were allowed to be nominated for the prize: Joshua Ferris and Karen Joy Fowler were the only Americans to make the shortlist (consisting of six finalists). LARB is proud to have reviewed two of the novels on the shortlist (those by Ferris and Joy Fowler) earlier this year, and also to have recently reviewed another book by a shortlisted author, Ali Smith. Check out the reviews below:
- Compulsive Individuality (Joshua Ferris, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour)
- They Are All Completely Within Ourselves (Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves)
- The Brightest in the World (Ali Smith, Artful)
