Two literary heavy-hitters in running for second Booker Prize book win
Marlon James and Douglas Stuart, both previous Booker Prize winners, are on the shortlist for the literary award, alongside US author Elizabeth Strout.
Marlon James and Douglas Stuart, both previous winners of the Booker Prize, have been shortlisted for the award again. They are joined on the shortlist by US author Elizabeth Strout. If either James or Stuart wins, they will become only the fifth author to have won the Booker Prize twice.
The shortlist was announced, with James and Stuart among the contenders for the UK's most prestigious fiction award.
The two authors are currently tied with three other writers in the running for the prize.
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