LONDON - Canadian authors Esi Edugyan and Patrick deWitt have made the short list for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious literary award.
Victoria-based Edugyan is in the running for the prize -- worth 50,000 pounds (about $80,000 Cdn) -- for her second novel, "Half-Blood Blues."
It's about black jazz musicians trying to survive in Europe during the Second World War.
Vancouver Island native deWitt, who now lives in the U.S., is a nominee for his second novel, "The Sisters Brothers," a comical western set amid the 1850s California gold rush.
A total of six novelists made the Booker short list, announced Tuesday morning in London.
They include multiple Booker finalist Julian Barnes for the memory-haunted "The Sense of an Ending," and Stephen Kelman's debut novel, "Pigeon English."
The list is rounded out by "Snowdrops," the debut novel from A.D. Miller, and "Jamrach's Menagerie" by Carol Birch, who was longlisted in 2003.
The winner will be announced Oct. 18 at a dinner at London's Guildhall.
