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Most diverse Booker prize shortlist ever as Hilary Mantel misses out – The Guardian
With no room for Mantel’s conclusion to her Wolf Hall trilogy, the six finalists also include four debuts
Hilary Mantel will not win a third Booker prize with the final novel in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, after American writers made a near clean sweep of this years shortlist.
With four writers of colour among its six authors, the shortlist, announced on Tuesday, is the most diverse line-up in the prizes history. Four debut novelists Diane Cook, Avni Doshi, Douglas Stuart and Brandon Taylor are up against the acclaimed Zimbabwean Tsitsi Dangarembga, and the Ethiopian-American Maaza Mengiste for th…
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