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Salman Rushdie Favourite For Best Of The Booker Award

Posted at 6:31AM Monday 12 May 2008

To celebrate 40 years of the Man Booker literary prize, a shortlist of six past winners has been drawn up, from which one will be picked by the public for a Best of the Booker award.

Iris Murdoch, William Golding and Kingsley Amis are among some of the 20th century's foremost writers who have failed to make the shortlist.

The nominees are Sir Salman Rushdie, Pat Barker, Peter Carey, J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and J. G. Farrell. Four of them were born outside Britain.

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