Booker Prize panel is announced
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The judging panel for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction includes authors, a poet and an actress.
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Former politician Michael Portillo is to chair next year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction judging panel.
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Health Secretary Alan Johnson will meet nurses, doctors and patients Tuesday as the government launches the first of its &quot;citizens&#39; juries&quot; on how to improve the National Health Service over the next decade.
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A childhood tale set in Libya, a 19th-century Australian saga and a story of love and loss in World War II are among the finalists announced Thursday for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious award for fiction.
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A panel commissioned by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to draft a plan to broaden the UN Security Council is expected to issue its recommendations tomorrow.
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Irish author Anne Enright's "bleak" novel The Gathering is the surprise winner of the prestigious  Booker Prize.
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Authors including Ian McEwan, Lloyd Jones and Nicola Barker are shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize.
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Authors including Booker winners DBC Pierre and Margaret Atwood make the lmpac Award longlist.
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Long-standing favorite Ian McEwan faced a strong challenge from little-known New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones on Thursday, as judges announced the finalists for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious award for fiction.
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Writer David Mitchell is the bookmakers' favourite to win the Booker Prize as the countdown gets under way.
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The Sept. 11 Commission&#39;s report and five women novelists have been selected as National Book Award finalists, the National Book Foundation said Wednesday.
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Former political prisoner Jack Mapanje is among the nominees for the Â£10,000 Forward Prize for Poetry.
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&quot;Cloud Atlas&quot; by the British-born, Ireland-based author David Mitchell was the early favourite to win this year's Man Booker Prize, a day after the shortlist of six novels was announced.
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Six books are on the shortlist for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, selected from among 22 nominees.
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British author Sarah Waters was   installed on Thursday as 2-1 favorite for the Booker Prize   after judges left a string of literary heavyweights off the   shortlist for one of the world's top book awards.
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BEIRUT: When the 56th annual Frankfurt Book Fair opens Wednesday, Oct. 6, some 200 novelists, playwrights and poets from the Arab world will arrive with one overriding hope: to stake a claim in the global ...
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New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones was the target of an unprecedented gamble as the shortlist was announced on Thursday for the Man Booker Prize, one of the literary world's most prestigious awards.