Award trustees confirm rumours of rule change by announcing that all English-language writers will be eligible from 2014

Organisers of the Man Booker prize have announced the biggest rule-change in its 45-year history with the confirmation that all English-language writers will be eligible from next year.

That means American writers such as Marilynne Robinson, Jonathan Franzen and Richard Ford can now be contenders for an award that has been restricted to citizens of the Commonwealth (including Zimbabwe) and the Republic of Ireland.

The prize trustees said they had consulted extensively – talking to 40 or 50 writers, readers, booksellers, publishers and agents – for 18 months before deciding on the change. More.

See: The Guardian

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