Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood in 2019 Man Booker longlist

British Indian velist Salman Rushdie's yet-to-be-published vel "Quichotte" has me it to longlist of this year's Man Booker Prize. 

Rushdie has earlier won Booker in 1981 for "Midnight's Children". Canian writer Margaret Atwood, who h earlier bagged award in 2000 for "Blind Assassins", is ar former winner on list. Her 2019 minated work,  " Testaments", is a sequel to her acclaimed book " Handmaid's Tale". 

This year's list was chosen from 151 vels published in UK or Ireland between October 1, 2018, and September 30, 2019, five-member selection panel anunced on Wednesday.

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Or names on longlist included Kevin Barry's "Night Boat to Tangier", Oyinkan Braithwaite's "My Sister, Serial Killer", Lucy Ellmann's "Ducks, Newburyport", Bernardine Evaristo's "Girl, Woman, Or", John Lanchester's " Wall", Deborah Levy's " Man Who Saw Everything", Valeria Luiselli's "Lost Children Archive", Chigozie Obioma's "An Orchestra of Mirities", Max Porter's "Lanny", Elif Shafak's "10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World" and Jeanette Winterson's "Frankissstein".  

"If you only re one book this year, make a leap. Re all 13 of se. re are bel candidates and debutants on this list. re are favourites; y are all credible winners. y imagine our world, familiar from news cycle disaster and grievance, with wild humour, deep insight and a keen humanity. se writers offer joy and hope.

"y celebrate rich complexity of English as a global langu. y are exacting, enlightening and entertaining. Really  re all of m," founder and director of Hay Festival Peter Florence, who chaired panel, said. 

Or members of jury included  former fiction publisher and editor Liz Calder; velist, essayist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo; writer, brocaster and former barrister Afua Hirsch; and concert pianist, conductor and composer Joanna MacGregor.

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"re are familiar names here writing at height of ir powers, re are young writers of exceptional imagination and daring, re is wit, incisive political thought, stillness and thrill. 

"And re is a plurality that shows making of literature in English to be a global endeavour. 2019 longlist is a testament to its extremely good health," Gaby Wood, Literary Director of Booker Prize Foundation, said. 

Established in 1969, Man Booker Prize for Fiction, awards writers of any nationality, writing in English and published in UK or Ireland, and carries a cash prize of 50,000 pound along with a specially bound edition of winner's book.

shortlist of six books will be anunced on September 3, and 2019 winner will be finally anunced on October 14