No Indian writer in Booker longlist

No Indian author figures among the 13 writers longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize announced on Wednesday with celebrated South African novelist J.M. Coetzee, who won the prestigious prize twice, in the running again for his book The Schooldays of Jesus. Coetzee is pitted alongside well known writers such as Deborah Levy (Hot Milk), A.L. Kennedy (Serious Sweet) and Elizabeth Strout (My Name Is Lucy Barton) for the prize. Jamaican author Marlon James won the prize last year.

Six of the longlisted titles are by women and seven by men, with four American writers and seven British.