New Zealand author Lloyd Jones has made the long-list of finalists for this year's Booker Prize.
The Booker Prize is one of the world's most prestigious literary awards.
Jones' novel Mr Pip tells the tale of a young girl in Bouganville during the civil war and the role Charles Dickens' Great expectations plays in her life. Jones has already been recognised this year picking up the Montana award for fiction, the Montana readers choice award and the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Mr Pip made the Booker Prize long list of 13, which will be cut down to a shortlist in September.
The long list:
Nicola Barker - Darkmans (Britain)
Edward Docx - Self Help (Britain)
Tan Twan Eng - The Gift Of Rain (Malaysia)
Anne Enright - The Gathering (Ireland)
Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Pakistan)
Peter Ho Davies - The Welsh Girl (Wales)
Lloyd Jones - Mister Pip (New Zealand)
Nikita Lalwani - Gifted (India)
Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach (Britain)
Catherine O'Flynn - What Was Lost (Britain)
Michael Redhill - Consolation (Canada)
Indra Sinha - Animal's People (India)
AN Wilson - Winnie & Wolf (Britain)
