The2014 ManBooker Prize for fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 14 October 2014. Until 2014, only novels written in English and from authors in the Commonwealth, including the UK, the Republic of Ireland and Zimbabwe were eligible for consideration; however from 2014 rules were changed to extend eligibility to any novel written in English.[1] The longlist of 13 works included four from the United States of America, the first works from authors from outside the previous pool of eligible nations.[2][3]
The panel of judges was chaired byA. C. Grayling and comprisedJonathan Bate,Sarah Churchwell,Daniel Glaser,Alastair Niven andErica Wagner.[4]
A longlist of thirteen titles was announced on 23 July 2014.[4]
| Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua Ferris | To Rise Again at a Decent Hour | Novel | United States | Viking Press |
| Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Historical novel | Australia | Chatto & Windus |
| Karen Joy Fowler | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | Novel | United States | Serpent's Tale |
| Siri Hustvedt | The Blazing World | Novel | United States | Sceptre Press |
| Howard Jacobson | J | Novel | United Kingdom | Jonathan Cape |
| Paul Kingsnorth | The Wake | Historical novel | United Kingdom | Unbound |
| David Mitchell | The Bone Clocks | Novel | United Kingdom | Sceptre Press |
| Neel Mukherjee | The Lives of Others | Novel | United Kingdom | Chatto and Windus |
| David Nicholls | Us | Novel | United Kingdom | Hodder and Stoughton |
| Joseph O'Neill | The Dog | Novel | Ireland | Fourth Estate |
| Richard Powers | Orfeo | Novel | United States | Atlantic Books |
| Ali Smith | How to Be Both | Historical novel | United Kingdom | Hamish Hamilton |
| Niall Williams | History of the Rain | Novel | Ireland | Bloomsbury |
The shortlist of six novels was announced on 9 September 2014.[5] It was composed of:
On 14 October, chair judge A. C. Grayling announced that Australian authorRichard Flanagan had won the 2014Man Booker Prize for his bookThe Narrow Road to the Deep North.[6] The judges spent three hours deliberating before announcing the winner. Grayling described the historical novel as a "remarkable love story as well as a story about human suffering and comradeship".[7]