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 'The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time' by Mark Haddon
has been included on the longlist for this years Booker
Prize. It is only the second time a children's book
has been selected.
The longlist, announced last Friday (15th August), contains
23 titles including books by literary heavyweights such
as Martin Amis and Margaret Atwood.
A shortlist of six authors will be announced on 16 September
each writer receiving a cheque for £2,500. The winner
of the final £50,000 award will be announced on 14
October at a ceremony in London, which will be broadcast
on BBC Four.
The Booker Prize for Fiction was originally set up by Booker
plc in 1969 to reward merit, raise the stature of the author
in the eyes of the public and encourage an interest in contemporary
quality fiction.
The judging panel for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction
2003 is: writer, academic and broadcaster Professor John
Carey (Chair); writer, academic and critic A.C. Grayling;
record-breaking mountaineer and journalist Rebecca Stephens,
MBE; novelist, broadcaster and presenter Francine Stock;
and novelist, biographer and literary critic D.J. Taylor.
This years longlist of 23 books was chosen from 117 entries.
Longlist for the 2003 Man Booker Prize
Monica Ali for Brick Lane
Martin Amis for Yellow Dog
Margaret Atwood for Oryx and Crake
Carol Birch for Turn Again Home
Melvyn Bragg for Crossing the Lines
JM Coetzee for Elizabeth Costello
Julia Darling for The Taxi Driver's Daughter
Gerard Donovan for Schopenhauer's Telescope
Damon Galgut for The Good Doctor
Barbara Gowdy for The Romantic
Mark Haddon for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-time
Zoë Heller for Notes on a Scandal
Francis King for The Nick of Time
Shena Mackay for Heligoland
Clare Morrall for Astonishing Splashes Of Colour
John Murray for Jazz etc
Julie Myerson for Something Might Happen
Tim Parks for Judge Savage
Caryl Phillips for A Distant Shore
DCB Pierre for Vernon God Little
Jonathan Raban for Waxwings
Graham Swift for The Light of Day
Barbara Trapido for Frankie & Stankie
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