Marlon James or Douglas Stuart could snag a Booker double when the fiction prize is awarded

Jamaican novelist Marlon James and Scotland's Douglas Stuart stand poised to win the Booker Prize for the second time when the prestigious literary award is announced next Monday in London. If either author secures the $67,000 prize for "The Disappearers" or "John of John," they would join a select club of only five writers to claim the accolade twice, joining the ranks of J.M.

Coetzee, Peter Carey, Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood. Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout also has a shot at the prize, with her novel "The Things We Never Say" on a shortlist of six contenders. The Booker Prize, founded in 1969, is known for reshaping the careers of its winners, which includes Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Bernardine Evaristo and Arundhati Roy. Last year's recipient was Hungarian-British writer David Szalay for "Flesh."