Here's the 2021 Booker Prize longlist

The 2021 Booker Prize longlist has been released, and it includes Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners alongside debut novelists.

The Guardian also notes, in introducing the thirteen contenders for one of the biggest English-language literature prizes, that the list spans the globe, from Sri Lanka to South Africa to northern Canada.

These thirteen books are competing for a £50,000 ($69,000) prize; the shortlist will be announced September 14, with the winner being revealed November 3.

• A Passage North, by Anuk Arudpragasam 

• Second Place, by Rachel Cusk 

• The Promise, by Damon Galgut 

• The Sweetness of Water, by Nathan Harris 

• Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro

• An Island, by Karen Jennings 

• A Town Called Solace, by Mary Lawson 

• No One is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood

• The Fortune Men, by Nadifa Mohamed

• Bewilderment, by Richard Powers 

• China Room, by Sunjeev Sahota 

• Great Circle, by Maggie Shipstead 

• Light Perpetual, by Francis Spufford