The lengthy and complex selection process has sometimes been criticised for producing stodgy and unadventurous shortlists.
Graphic works have been included in the shortlists for the first time this year.
Officials say that they used shortlists of bidders so that they could award contracts faster.
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The shortlists for the UK's oldest literary awards - the James Tait Black prizes - have been announced.
Labour adopted all-women shortlists in six seats for this year's Welsh assembly election.
The report acknowledged parties' past diversity efforts, including all-women shortlists by Labour and the Conservatives' "A-list" of approved candidates.
Mr Narayan was often mentioned as a likely Nobel winner, but like Graham Greene never got beyond the shortlists.
The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are also being urged to make sure more women get elected despite their rejecting calls for all-women shortlists.
Indeed, he may be taking his managerial obsessions too far when he says he will ask headhunting firms to draw up shortlists for the top jobs.
Labour is under pressure to introduce all-women shortlists, especially in areas like Wales, Scotland and the North East of England where there are fewer women MPs.
Cardiff North MP Julie Morgan, who is in favour of all-women shortlists, said their adoption was needed to end a situation in which just seven female MPs have ever represented Welsh seats.
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