Cast your vote for the Lost Man Booker Prize winner

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6 April 2010

There has been a fantastic response to the Lost Man Booker Prize since it was announced at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival on 25 March 2010.

The six titles shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize are:

Following the announcement, The Times hosted a Lost Man Booker Prize online debate (26 March 2010) about the shortlisted titles. That discussion, hosted by The Times Literary Editor Erica Wagner, can be caught again here.

The Man Booker Prize twitter feed has been very lively and readers have been busy casting their votes online at the Man Booker Prize website.

In The Independent (UK) on 27 March 2010, Amy Jenkins showed her enthusiasm for the prize saying, "For some reason I'm more excited by the Lost Booker than I am by all the prizes for contemporary novels put together."

Will Gompertz, BBC Arts Correspondent has been blogging about the prize, saying what 'a good idea' the one-off prize is.

On the LoveReading website, Ian Rankin has publicly pledged his support for Muriel Spark as winner.

And in Australia's Sydney Morning Herald, support has been shown for the two Australian novelists on the list - Shirley Hazzard and Patrick White.

The Guardian invited John Crace, Deborah Orr, Melissa Denes, Emily Wilson, William Fiennes and Lisa Allardice to review the six shortlisted titles in a special Lost Man Booker feature.

Shortly after the shortlist announcement the bookmakers put J G Farrell as favourite to win but as ever these odds are changing on a daily basis.

The winner will be announced on 19 May 2010.

The shortlist was selected by a panel of three judges, all of whom were born in or around 1970. They are journalist and critic, Rachel Cooke, ITN newsreader, Katie Derham and poet and novelist, Tobias Hill.

The Lost Man Booker Prize is a one-off prize to honour the books published in 1970 that were not eligible for consideration for the Booker Prize.

Read the full press release here.

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