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Old hands vie for Booker prize
Novelists Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan are among the nominees for the second Man Booker International Prize for Fiction, reports BBC Online.
The winner of the £60,000 prize is chosen from the 15-strong shortlist and will be announced in June. Others on the shortlist include Doris Lessing, Peter Carey, Salman Rushdie and John Banville.
The full list is:
Chinua Achebe
Margaret Atwood
John Banville
Michael Tournier
Peter Carey
Carlos Fuentes
Ian McEwan
Harry Mulisch
Doris Lessing
Alice Munro
Michael Ondaatje
Amos Oz
Philip Roth
Salman Rushdie
Don DeLillo
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