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Julian Barnes heads up Booker shortlist | |
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Bookies' favourite Julian Barnes is among six authors featured on this year's Man Booker Prize shortlist. | |
Bookmaker William Hill put Barnes at 3-1 to win for his novel The Sense of an Ending ahead of the announcement. | |
Stephen Kelman, AD Miller, Carol Birch, Patrick deWitt and Esi Edugyan have also made it onto the shortlist. | |
The winner of the £50,000 annual prize - won last year by Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question - will be named on 18 October. | |
Alan Hollinghurst, whose novel The Stranger's Child had been second favourite to win, did not make the shortlist. | |
Former MI5 chief Dame Stella Rimington is the chair of this year's judging panel. | |
Writer and journalist Matthew d'Ancona, author Susan Hill, author and politician Chris Mullin and Gaby Wood of the Telegraph are her fellow jurors. | |
Barnes has been shortlisted for the prize on three previous occasions, without success. | Barnes has been shortlisted for the prize on three previous occasions, without success. |
The 65-year-old was nominated in 1984 for Flaubert's Parrot, in 1998 for England, England and in 2005 for Arthur and George. | The 65-year-old was nominated in 1984 for Flaubert's Parrot, in 1998 for England, England and in 2005 for Arthur and George. |
This year's shortlist contains two debut novelists - Miller and Kelman - as well as two women - Birch and Edugyan. | |