'Man Booker dozen' expands to 13 books this year
China Daily | Updated: 2009-07-31 07:56
LONDON: Thirteen books have made it onto the longlist for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, up from the usual 12, in what judges described as one of the strongest fields in recent years.
The "Man Booker dozen", as the selection is known, includes two former winners, four previously shortlisted writers and three first-time novelists.
The annual award for the best novel in English by a writer from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth counts, because it helps the winning book sell tens of thousands of extra copies.
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