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Sunday, April 15, 2007

UD's Man Booker Rankings


Fifteen contemporary fiction writers have been nominated for the second Booker International prize. The winner will be announced in June. Here's how UD ranks them:

1. Don DeLillo

2. Salman Rushdie

3. Michel Tournier

4. Philip Roth

5. Doris Lessing

6. Ian McEwan

7. Carlos Fuentes

8. Amos Oz

9. Margaret Atwood

10. Chinua Achebe

11. Peter Carey

12. Michael Ondaatje

13. Harry Mulisch

14. Alice Munro

15. John Banville