Literary heavyweights AS Byatt and JM Coetzee were today named on this year's longlist for the Booker prize – which also features a first-time writer purporting to be Tarzan's chimpanzee.

本年度的布克奖提名名单于今天公之于众，文学界重量级人物如拜阿特（AS Byatt）和库切（JM Coetzee）均榜上有名。 一同入围的还有一位号称是“‘泰山’的黑猩猩”的新人作家。

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She is only the third double winner of the award, after JM Coetzee and Peter Carey.

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South African JM Coetzee was born in February 1940 and works as Professor of General Literature at the University of Cape Town.

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Among the other academicians named at Wednesday's announcement at the British Library in London are AS Byatt, JM Coetzee, Sebastian Faulks, Mark Haddon, David Mitchell, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson.

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