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Man Booker Prize judges prepare for 2009 reading

Submissions now closed for the Man Booker Prize 2009

8 April 2009

Publishers submissions for the Man Booker Prize 2009 are now closed. Novels submitted to the prize this year have been logged and counted, and the judging panel will be reading at least 121 books over the coming months.

The judging panel for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction consists of Lucasta Miller, biographer and critic; Michael Prodger, Literary Editor of The Sunday Telegraph; John Mullan, academic, journalist and broadcaster and Sue Perkins, comedian and broadcaster. James Naughtie, one of the country's best-known broadcasters, is this year's Chair of Judges.

In addition to the 121 books submitted by publishers, further titles have been suggested by editors as 'call-in' titles. The Man Booker Prize rules stipulate that, in addition to submitted titles, the judging panel is able to ‘call in' titles that have not been submitted by publishers. The closing date for the judges' decision about the call in titles is the end of June 2009.

The panel will meet at the end of July to decide on the Man Booker Dozen, a longlist of thirteen titles. The shortlist of six titles will be announced on the 8 September 2009 and the winner announcement will take place at Guildhall on 6 October 2009.

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