She also presents the prestigious Man Booker literary awards for BBC Two and BBC Four.
Howard Jacobson has won the 2010 Man Booker Prize for fiction for his book The Finkler Question.
On the other hand, the public comments system is entertaining, compelling and, unlike the Man Booker, transparent.
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Mantel's win also makes her the first person in Man Booker history to win the prize for a direct sequel.
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Established in 1969, the Man Booker is the best-known fiction prize for English-language authors from Commonwealth countries and Ireland.
American writer Lydia Davis has been awarded the Man Booker International prize for her "achievement in fiction on the world stage".
The book was previously shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, which eventually went to Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies.
The formation of the prize was announced in October 2011 amidst criticism about the decision by Man Booker judges that year to focus on "readability".
Winterhart is up against Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies, winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize, as well as Stephen May's Life!
His debut novel, The Gift of Rain - also about the Japanese occupation of Malaya - was longlisted for the Man Booker in 2007.
Stevens is currently filming the third series of Downton Abbey and is on the judging panel for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
The Man Booker Prize, which is open to writers from the UK, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland, announces its 2013 winner in October.
It is Hilary Mantel's second award for Bring Up The Bodies, a historical novel about Thomas Cromwell, which also won the 2012 Man Booker Prize.
According to the latest figures, Mantel's Bring up the Bodies has sold 108, 342 copies, which is more than the other 11 Man Booker longlisted novels combined.
BBC: Man Booker Prize won by Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies
Chronicling Thomas Cromwell's rise from blacksmith's son to a prominent position in Henry VIII's court, the novel became a best-seller after winning the 2009 Man Booker Prize and various other awards.
Formerly known as the Literature Prize, the award was first announced in 2011 amidst a row in literary circles about the decision by Man Booker judges that year to focus on "readability".
Mantel, whose novel is part of a trilogy about Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell, already holds the record for being the first woman and the first living British author to win the Man Booker Prize twice.
With so many "big" books on the shortlist and well-known favourites like Julian Barnes, Zadie Smith and Kazuo Ishiguro, it was quite exciting to see John Banville slink off with the Man Booker Prize last night.
In this novel, short-listed for the Man Booker prize, the author insinuates himself under the skin of Henry James, covering not only the known episodes in the literary lion's life, but also imagining the darker corners.
Little known to the general public but regarded fondly by critics, Mr. Connell was a National Book award finalist, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a finalist in 2009 for the International Man Booker Award for lifetime achievement.
The Man Booker does so much horse trading, has so many arguments, and people talk complete nonsense about it and occasionally choose ridiculously bad books for no good reason, but all of that is done behind closed doors so you never see it.
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"Haddon's book was the 'people's choice' for the best book of 2003 as the public went on to buy over four times as many copies of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time than the Man Booker 2003 winner Vernon God Little, " said Mr Pack.
The latest example, which manages quite epically to combine both those forms of snobbery, comes from Sir Peter Stothard, editor of the Times Literary Supplement and Man Booker Prize judge, who has expressed fears that the standard of literary criticism has slipped and that book bloggers are some sort of literary kryptonite that will destroy the industry.
Each artist read a section of a poem by Man-Booker prize-winning author Yann Martel - emphasising the need for all the world's population to have access to clean water - followed by a musical or artistic performance.
In these universes, the man he becomes is Booker DeWitt, a Pinkerton muscle man tasked with the Columbia mission, the one who sold his daughter, and the one who eventually led the Vox Populi to victory over Comstock.
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The man formerly known as Booker DeWitt had to die.
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