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Atwood moves up a length

The three judges for the new £60,000 International Man Booker Prize were announced in London yesterday, with one Canadian making it onto the esteemed panel. Essayist, anthologist, and all-around book lover Alberto Manguel will join literary critic and Oxford professor John Carey and Reading Lolita in Tehran author Azar Nafisi on the triumvirate, who will draw up a shortlist of 15 authors before deciding on a winner in early 2005. Margaret Atwood has already been picked as a frontrunner for the new prize, which is to be awarded for the life’s work of an author whose work has been published in English. Given that Atwood is the only Canadian author examined in any depth in Manguel’s latest book, A Reading Diary, it’s probably not a longshot to suggest that her odds of winning just got a little better.

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Read The Globe and Mail article on the Booker judges

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