Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie each have a chance to add yet another award to their collections.

The two are among the six authors shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, considered one of the most prestigious in English language literature. The Man Booker Prize Foundation revealed the list of finalists on Tuesday morning.

Atwood is nominated for The Testaments, her long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, which was shortlisted for the Booker in 1986. (She won the prize for The Blind Assassin in 2000.) Rushdie, also a veteran of several Booker shortlists — and winner of the Best of Booker award, twice, for his 1981 novel, Midnight’s Children — made the cut this year for Quichotte, his retelling of Don Quixoteset in modern-day America.

One other previously shortlisted author was named a finalist this year: Chigozie Obioma, who was previously nominated for The Fishermen, made the list this year for An Orchestra of Minorities.

Activist and author Bernardine Evaristo was named a finalist for Girl, Woman, Other, as was Elif Shafak for 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Both are making their first appearances on the Booker shortlist.

The sole American writer to make the shortlist is Lucy Ellmann, a longtime U.K. resident. Her nominated novel, Ducks, Newburyport, is one of the longest ever to be nominated for the Booker; it weighs in at 998 pages.

The Man Booker Prize, which comes with a cash award of $60,500, will be awarded on Oct. 14 at a ceremony in London.

Michael Schaub is an Austin, Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.