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Eco heads literary prize longlist

Posted at 9:16AM Tuesday 18 Nov 2003

Novels by Umberto Eco, Margaret Drabble and Rohinton Mistry have made the longlist for The International Impac Dublin Literary Award 2004.

They are among 125 authors competing for the 100,000 euros (£71,000) prize - the world's biggest for a single work of fiction in English.

Others include AS Byatt, John Updike, Annie Proulx, Zadie Smith, JM Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides and Donna Tartt.

Nominations for the prize were made by 162 libraries in 47 countries.

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