The Booker Prize announce their longlist for this year’s award, and less than a year after Paul Beatty became the first American to win the award, four more Americans are in contention, led by Colson Whitehead’s National Book Award and Pulitzer-winning The Underground Railroad, along with: Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1 (Holt/Faber & Faber) Emily Fridlund, History of Wolves (Grove/Weidenfeld & Nicolson) George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo (Random House/Bloomsbury) The longlist also features Booker winner Arundhati Roy, in contention again for The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness (Knopf; Hamish Hamilton), and previous nominees Sebastian Barry for Days Without End (Penguin/Faber & Faber); Mohsin Hamid for Exit West (Riverhead/Hamish Hamilton); […]