Irish author Kevin Barry has made the long list for the prestigious Booker Prize for his novel 'Night Boat to Tangier'.
The Limerick man is the only Irish author to make the list for this years award, which was won by Northern Irish writer Anna Burns last year for her novel Milkman
Barry's novel, which features two fading Irish gangsters discussing their past lives, has been described by judges as "rogue gem of a novel" and "a work of crime fiction not quite like any other".
Previous Irish winners include Roddy Doyle, John Banville and Anne Enright.
The list will be trimmed down to a short list of six on 3 September, with the winner to be announced on 14 October.
The winner of the Booker Prize will receive £50,000.
The longlist in full:
- Margaret Atwood - The Testaments
- Kevin Barry - Night Boat To Tangier
- Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister, The Serial Killer
- Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport
- Bernardine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other
- John Lanchester - The Wall
- Deborah Levy - The Man Who Saw Everything
- Valeria Luiselli - Lost Children Archive
- Chigozie Obioma - An Orchestra Of Minorities
- Max Porter - Lanny
- Salman Rushdie - Quichotte
- Elif Shafak - 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World
- Jeanette Winterson - Frankissstein
