LONDON (TIP): Indian novelist Arundhati Roy, who won the Man Booker prize in 1997 for “The God of Small Things,” is among the contenders for this year’s Man Booker Prize for fiction.

On a longlist thronged with literary titans, whose combined trophy cabinet would include the Pulitzer, the Costa, the Baileys, the Folio, the Impac and the Goldsmiths prizes, Roy – the only author to have won the Booker before – is listed for her novel about an Indian transgender woman, which judges called a “rich and vital book”. Speaking about why it took her two decades to produce a second novel, Roy told the Guardian earlier this year that “fiction just takes its time. It’s no hurry. I can’t write it faster or slower than I have; it’s like you’re a sedimentary rock that’s just gathering all these layers, and swimming around.”

On July 26, The Man Booker Prize unveiled the 13 titles longlisted for its annual £50,000 ($81,625) award.

The complete longlist is comprised of:

• 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster (U.S.)
• Days Without End by Sebastian Barry (Ireland)
• History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (U.S.)
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Pakistan-U.K.)
• Solar Bones by Mike McCormack (Ireland)
• Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor (U.K.)
• Elmet by Fiona Mozley (U.K.)
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (India)
• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (U.S.)
• Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Pakistan-U.K.)
• Autumn by Ali Smith (U.K.)
• Swing Time by Zadie Smith (U.K.)
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (U.S.)

144 titles were submitted for consideration for the 2017 prize. The Man Booker Prize is open to any book-length work of fiction written in English that has been published in the U.K. This year’s award is being judged by Baroness Lola Young, literary critic Lila Zam Zangeneh, novelist Sarah Hall, artist Tom Phillips and writer Colin Thubron. The six finalists will be named Sept. 13, and the winner of the 50,000-pound ($65,000) prize will be announced on Oct. 17.