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The Man Booker Dozen, a longlist of 13 nominees for the 2009 Man Booker Prize, the UK's leading literary prize, was anounced in London, England today. The longlist includes several previous nominees and winners:

The Children's Book by AS Byatt
Summertime by JM Coetzee
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
Me Cheeta by James Lever
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
Not Untrue & Not Unkind by Ed O'Loughlin
Heliopolis by James Scudamore
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Love and Summer by William Trevor
The Little Stranger Sarah Waters

The chair of judges, James Naughtie, said today:

"The five Man Booker judges have settled on thirteen novels as the longlist for this year's prize.  We believe it to be one of the strongest lists in recent memory, with two former winners, four past-shortlisted writers, three first-time novelists and a span of styles and themes that make this an outstandingly rich fictional mix."

A total of 132 books, 11 of which were called in by the judges, were considered for the ‘Man Booker Dozen' longlist of 13 books. Next month the shortlist will be announced, with the final prize awarded on October 6, 2009.

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Selected 2009 Man Booker Prize Longlisted Titles