2011 Man Booker Prize

The 2011 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 18 October 2011. The Man Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 26 July,{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2011/jul/26/man-booker-prize-2011-in-pictures|title=Man Booker prize 2011: The longlist in pictures|access-date=26 July 2011|publisher=The Guardian}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booker-prize/8663584/Man-Booker-Prize-2011-longlist.html|title=Man Booker Prize 2011 longlist|access-date=26 July 2012|publisher=The Telegraph}} and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 6 September.{{Cite web|url=https://thebookerprizes.com/resources/media/pressreleases/2011/09/06/2011-man-booker-prize-shortlist-announced|title=The 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist announced|access-date=6 September 2011|publisher=|archive-date=5 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200205173156/https://thebookerprizes.com/resources/media/pressreleases/2011/09/06/2011-man-booker-prize-shortlist-announced|url-status=dead}} The Man Booker Prize was awarded to Julian Barnes for The Sense of an Ending.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/18/booker-prize-julian-barnes-wins|title=Booker prize 2011: Julian Barnes triumphs at last|access-date=18 October 2011|publisher=The Guardian}}{{Cite web|url=https://thebookerprizes.com/fiction/2011|title=The Man Booker Prize 2011- The Winner|access-date=2020-04-04|archive-date=2021-01-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117033537/https://thebookerprizes.com/fiction/2011|url-status=dead}}

Judging panel

Nominees (shortlist)

class="wikitable"

! Author

! Title

! Genre(s)

! Country

! Publisher

Julian Barnes

|The Sense of an Ending

| Novel

| UK

| Jonathan Cape, Random House

Carol Birch

|Jamrach's Menagerie

| Novel

| UK

| Canongate Books

Patrick deWitt

|The Sisters Brothers

| Novel

| Canada

| Granta

Esi Edugyan

|Half Blood Blues

| Novel

| Canada

| Serpent's Tail

Stephen Kelman

|Pigeon English

| Novel

| UK

| Bloomsbury

Andrew Miller

|Snowdrops

| Novel

| UK

| Atlantic Books

Nominees (longlist)

class="wikitable"

! Author

! Title

! Genre(s)

! Country

! Publisher

Julian Barnes

|The Sense of an Ending

| Novel

| UK

| Jonathan Cape, Random House

Sebastian Barry

| On Canaan's Side

| Novel

| Ireland

| Faber and Faber

Carol Birch

|Jamrach's Menagerie

| Novel

| UK

| Canongate Books

Patrick deWitt

|The Sisters Brothers

| Novel

| Canada

| Granta

Esi Edugyan

|Half Blood Blues

| Novel

| Canada

| Serpent's Tail

Yvvette Edwards

|A Cupboard Full of Coats

|Novel

|UK

|Oneworld

Stephen Kelman

|Pigeon English

| Novel

| UK

| Bloomsbury

Patrick McGuinness

| The Last Hundred Days

|Novel

|UK

|Seren

Alan Hollinghurst

|The Stranger's Child

| Novel

|UK

|Picador

Andrew Miller

|Snowdrops

| Novel

| UK

| Atlantic Books

Alison Pick

| Far to Go

| Novel

| Canada

|Tinder Press

Jane Rogers

|The Testament of Jessie Lamb

|Novel

|UK

|Canongate Books

D. J. Taylor

| Derby Day

|Novel

|

|Chatto & Windus

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