“They are all brilliantly human': Booker prize shortlist is revealed

No debuts appear on this year's Booker prize shortlist, which is dominated by established authors including a previous winner, Kiran Desai, and two previously shortlisted writers, David Szalay and Andrew Miller.

- Ella Creamer

Ben Markovits, Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura are also on the list, which was announced at an event at the Southbank Centre yesterday evening.

This year's judging panel includes the actor Sarah Jessica Parker, who runs the publishing imprint SJP Lit, and is chaired by Irish author Roddy Doyle, who won the Booker in 1993.

Desai - who was awarded the prize in 2006 for The Inheritance of Loss - is shortlisted for the first book she has written since that win, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, a story of love and family set between India and the US. At nearly 700 pages, the Indian author's third novel is the longest on the shortlist.

Szalay, a Hungarian-British writer who was shortlisted in 2016, made this year's list for Flesh, which follows protagonist István from his teens to midlife, and from Hungary to London. Szalay “has written a novel about the Big Question: about the numbing strangeness of being alive; about what, if anything, it means to amble through time in a machine made of meat”, wrote Keiran Goddard in a Guardian review.