One of the world's most prestigious literary prizes, the Booker Prize, has announced a long list of contenders for this year's award.. It includes 13 books, according to the award website..

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It is noted that this year the youngest and oldest authors in the history of the award apply for the Booker Prize.. In addition, at 116 pages, Claire Keegan's Little Things Like This is the shortest book in the history of the Booker Prize.. It broke the record set in 1979 by Penelope Fitzgerald's Offshore with 132 pages..

The long list also includes a novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout.. This is the second time her novel has made it to Booker, the first time was in 2009..

Long list of this year's Booker Prize.

Audrey Magee The Colony.

Selby Wynn Schwartz After Sappho.

Novoolet Bulawayo Glory.

Claire Keegan Small Things Like These.

Leila Mottley Nightcrawling.

Maddie Mortimer Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies.

Graham McRae Barnet Case Study.

Alan Garner Treacle Walker.

Percival Everett The Trees.

Hernan Diaz Trust.

Shehan Karunatilaka The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

Elizabeth Strout Oh William!

Karen Joy Fowler Booth.

Recall that last year the Booker Prize was awarded to South African writer Damon Galgut.. He was awarded for the novel "