LONDON, England - Newfoundland and Labrador author Lisa Moore and Ontario-based Emma Donoghue have made the long list for this year's Man Booker Prize for fiction.
Moore — a two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize nominee and winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize — is in the running for her second novel, "February."
It's about a woman whose husband dies in the 1982 sinking of the Ocean Ranger oil rig off the coast of Newfoundland.
Donoghue — a one-time Giller nominee who was born in Ireland and lives in London, Ont., — made the cut for "Room."
It follows a five-year-old boy who lives in a room with his mother and has never been outside.
Eleven other finalists are on the long list for this year's Booker Prize, which is worth about CDN$80,000 and will be handed out Oct. 12 in London.
They include three authors who have been shortlisted before: David Mitchell for "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet"; Damon Galgut for "In a Strange Room"; and "Trespass" by Rose Tremain, who has also been a judge for the prize.
The Booker Prize is awarded annually to a writer from the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
Last year's winner was Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall," about the reign of King Henry VIII.
