British novelist Hilary Mantel, who won the Man Booker Prize for Wolf Hall, has been nominated for the 2012 edition of the prize for Bring Up the Bodies, the second in her trilogy of novels about Thomas Cromwell.

A long list of 12 books that was announced Tuesday in London didn't include any Canadians.

Well-known writers such as Will Self, Michael Frayn and Nicola Barker were among the nine British writers in the running for the world’s most prestigious literary prize.

The list also includes South African writer André Brink, nominated for the first time at age 77, and Malaysian Tan Twan Eng, who was previously long-listed in 2007 for his debut novel The Book of Rain.

The long list:

  • Nicola Barker, The Yips (Fourth Estate).
  • Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident (Sceptre).
  • André Brink, Philida (Harvill Secker).
  • Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists (Myrmidon Books).
  • Michael Frayn, Skios (Faber & Faber).
  • Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Doubleday).
  • Deborah Levy, Swimming Home (And Other Stories).
  • Hilary Mantel, Bring up the Bodies (Fourth Estate).
  • Alison Moore, The Lighthouse (Salt).
  • Will Self, Umbrella (Bloomsbury).
  • Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis (Faber & Faber).
  • Sam Thompson, Communion Town (Fourth Estate).

Among the debut writers are Indian poet Thayil and British writers Beauman, Thompson and Joyce.

Jury chair Peter Stothard commented on the presence of four new voices on the list, saying it has been an “extraordinary year” for fiction and “the new has come powering through.”

Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies continues the story of King Henry VIII’s fixer, Cromwell, who she portrayed as a charming and cosmopolitan man skilled at court intrigue in Wolf Hall, which won the Booker in 2009. Bring Up the Bodies is a darker book, which chronicles the fall of Anne Boleyn, as well as the religious extremes of Tudor England.

The Man Booker Prize comes with a cash award of £50,000 ($79, 215 Cdn). A short list of six names will be announced on Sept. 11.

The prize, created in 1969, is given for the best novel of the year written in English by a citizen of the U.K., the Commonwealth countries or Ireland.