The shortlist for this year's £50,000 (US$80,450) Man Booker Prize:
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
Snowdrops by A.D. Miller
The winner of will be announced on October 18 in London
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Winners of this year's Ned Kelly Awards, which recognize the best work of Australian crime writers, include The Diggers Rest Hotel by Geoffrey McGeachin (best first novel), Prime Cut by Alan Carter's (best novel), Abandoned: The Sad Death of Dianne Brimble by Geesche Jacobsen (best true-crime) and A. S. Patric, "who sells books at Readings in St. Kilda," for his short story "Hemisphere Travel Guides: Las Vegas for Vegans," the Age reported.
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A shortlist has been announced for the £1,500 (US$1,712) Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for Poetry Translated from a European Language into English. The winner of this award, which honors the translator rather than the poet, will be named during the Aldeburgh Poetry festival in November. This year's finalists are:
David Colmer for Heavenly Life by Ramsey Nasr
Robin Fulton for Chickweed Wintergreen by Harry Martinson
George Messo, translator and editor of Ikinci Yeni: The Turkish Avant-Garde
Jennie Feldman and Stephen Romer for Into the Deep Street: Seven Modern French Poets
Judith Wilkinson for Raptors by Toon Tellegen
Adam J. Sorkin and Lydia Vianu for Lines Poems Poetry by Mircea Ivanescu
