2015 Man Booker Prize
The 2015 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 13 October 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.themanbookerprize.com/man-booker-prize-2015 |title=Man Booker 2015 |access-date=8 August 2015 |website=Man Booker Prize |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929134834/http://themanbookerprize.com/man-booker-prize-2015 |archive-date=29 September 2015 }} A longlist of thirteen titles was announced on 29 July, narrowed down to a shortlist of six titles on 15 September.{{cite web|title=Pulitzer winner makes Booker Prize shortlist|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34255672|website=BBC News|access-date=15 September 2015|date=15 September 2015}}
Judging panel
- Michael Wood (Chair)
- Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
- John Burnside
- Sam Leith
- Frances Osborne{{cite web|last1=Brown|first1=Mark|title=Man Booker prize 2015: US literary agent among 13 writers on longlist|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/29/man-booker-prize-2015-bill-clegg-longlist-13-writers|website=The Guardian|access-date=8 August 2015|date=29 July 2015}}
Nominees (shortlist)
| class="wikitable"
! Author ! Title ! Genre(s) ! Country ! Publisher |
| Marlon James
|A Brief History of Seven Killings | Novel | Jamaica |
| Hanya Yanagihara
| Novel | US |
| Anne Tyler
| Novel | US | Knopf Publishing Group |
| Tom McCarthy
| Novel | UK |
| Chigozie Obioma
| Novel | Nigeria |
| Sunjeev Sahota
| Novel | UK | Picador |
Nominees (longlist)
| class="wikitable"
! Author ! Title ! Genre(s) ! Country ! Publisher |
| Marlon James
|A Brief History of Seven Killings | Novel | Jamaica |
| Hanya Yanagihara
| Novel | US |
| Anne Tyler
| Novel | US | Knopf Publishing Group |
| Bill Clegg
| Novel | US | Gallery/Scout |
| Marilynne Robinson
|Lila | Novel | US |
| Tom McCarthy
| Novel | UK |
| Anuradha Roy
| Novel | India | Quercus |
| Anna Smaill
| Novel | New Zealand |
| Chigozie Obioma
| Novel | Nigeria |
| Anne Enright
| Novel | Ireland |
| Andrew O'Hagan
| Novel | UK |
| Laila Lalami
| Novel | US |
| Sunjeev Sahota
| Novel | UK |
Winner
On 13 October, chair judge Michael Wood announced that Jamaican author Marlon James had won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. This is the first time that a Jamaican-born author has won the prize.{{cite web|title=Man Booker Prize 2015: Marlon James wins for A Brief History of Seven Killings|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34511049|website=BBC News|access-date=13 October 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/13/marlon-james-wins-the-man-booker-prize-2015|title=Marlon James wins the Man Booker prize 2015|date=13 October 2015|work=Guardian|access-date=14 October 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/booker-prize/marlon-james-2015-winner-comment/|title=A Brief History of Seven Killings is violent, shocking - and a worthy winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize|date=13 October 2015|work=Daily Telegraph|access-date=14 October 2015}}