Congratulations to AL Kennedy, Associate Professor in the Writing Programme, on the longlisting of her most recent novel, Serious Sweet, for the Man Booker Prize 2016. Reviews include The Observer, The Spectator and the Financial Times. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was twice included in the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list. She has won awards including the 2007 Costa Book Award and the Austrian State Prize for International Literature. Her professional website is here.