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Literary Review
Man Booker 2002 factfile
Rohinton Mistry
ON Monday, August 19, the panel of judges for selecting this year's Man Booker Prize, announced the long list of 20 authors, selected from a total of 130 entries this year. In alphabetical order:
The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds & Dr. Glass, Dannie Abse, Robson Books
Shroud, John Banville, Picador
Critical Injuries, Joan Barfoot, Women's Press
Any Human Heart, William Boyd, Hamish Hamilton
The Next Big Thing, Anita Brookner, Viking
Peacetime, Robert Edric, Doubleday
Spies, Michael Frayn, Faber and Faber
Still Here, Linda Grant, Litte, Brown (Time Warner Books)
The Mulberry Empire, Philip Hensher, Flamingo
Who's Sorry Now? Howard Jacobson, Jonathan Cape
Life of Pi, Yann Martel, Canongate
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor, Bloomsbury
Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry, Faber and Faber
Dorian, Will Self, Viking
Unless, Carol Shields, 4th Estate
The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith, Hamish Hamilton
To the Last City, Colin Thubron, Chatto & Windus
The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor, Viking
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters, Virago
Dirt Music, Tim Winton, Picador
The panel of judges: Chair: Professor Lisa Jardine, writer, critic and broadcaster; David Baddiel, writer and comedian; Russell Celyn Jones, novelist and short story writer; Salley Vickers, novelist and analytical psychologist and Erica Wagner, literary editor of The Times.
A shortlist of six books will be announced on September 24 and the winner announced on October 22.
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