Marlon James or Douglas Stuart could snag a Booker double when the fiction prize is awarded
LONDON (AP) — Jamaican author Marlon James and Scotland’s Douglas Stuart have the chance to become two-time Booker Prize winners when the prestigious fiction award is handed out Monday in London. Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is also on a six-book shortlist — whittled down from 163 submitted novels — that judges called “moving, pacey, funny, violent, intriguing, horrifying and hopeful. ”James is the oddsmakers’ favorite to take the 50,000 pound ($67,000) prize with about...
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