The Booker Prize in literature is not much money, but it is widely esteemed.
"We had great difficulty in whittling down the longlist to the Booker Six, " he said.
"It really has has nothing to do with the Booker, " said Mr Kidd.
The author won the Booker Prize in 2012 and the Costa Book of the year in 2013.
Five times she made the shortlist for the Booker, Britain's most famous book award, but never won.
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He won the Booker in 1994, but it seems that not many people here know his work.
Both authors are former winners of the Akutagawa award, the Japanese equivalent of the Booker or Pulitzer.
Later chapters sag, perhaps unavoidably, under the weight of Golding's gathering fame and honours the Booker, the Nobel.
Ian McEwan and Peter Carey head the shortlist for the Booker prize, the literary world's most prestigious award.
The most predictable inclusion is Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies, a worthy sequel to the Booker-winning Wolf Hall.
It is second time lucky for Banville, whose novel The Book Of Evidence was shortlisted for the Booker in 1989.
But critics accused the Booker judges of dumbing down, and one group of literary leading lights announced a rival award.
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Another illustrious name: Rohinton Mistry, whose Such a Long Journey and A Fine Balance featured on the Booker short list.
The judges' discussion, which lasted around an hour, had considered that Mantel had already won the Booker but ultimately disregarded it.
Banville is the first Irish winner of the Booker Prize since Roddy Doyle won with Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha in 1993.
The writer, who won the Booker Prize last year, also received the Costa Book of the Year for the novel in January.
Not The Booker is all out in the open, and admits to its problematic side and is able to laugh at it.
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We would have to do it very differently to Not The Booker.
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The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989.
Earlier this month, the novel, which deals with the personal and political aftermath of India's independence, won the Best of the Booker prize.
One of the things that sets Not The Booker apart is that it is aware of its own flaws and admits to them.
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His 1994 follow-up novel, The Folding Star, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
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But a spat about how important readability is to high-class fiction - as the Booker chair Stella Remington discovered last year - will do.
The newspaper suggests the film's inability to find a distributor may be because the Booker Prize-winning novel was critical of former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi.
There were fears that the film may not be released in India because the Booker Prize-winning novel was critical of former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi.
Running for its fourth year, the winner of Not The Booker will receive one of the most highly sought-after prizes in the literary world: a Guardian mug.
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Wimbledon, a MacArthur "Genius" grant, "Project Runway, " "The Price is Right, " the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest, the Booker Prize or a Grammy for best spoken-word album.
In February Lee won his second best director Oscar for his 3D film Life of Pi, based on the Booker-winning novel about a shipwrecked boy and a Bengal tiger.
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