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Gail Jones
The author of eight novels, Gail Jones is an Australian academic who teaches cinema as well as literature. Unsurprisingly, images are central to her conception of fiction
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Stephen Kelman
Stephen Kelman's debut novel Pigeon English was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2011, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Guardian First Book Award
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Molly Keane
Molly Keane was an Irish novelist and playwright. Her most famous work is Good Behaviour, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1981
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Paul Kingsnorth
The Worcester-born and home counties-educated Paul Kingsnorth is, to date, the only member of the Booker Prize fraternity also to be a member of the Lani tribe of western Papua New Guinea
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Francis King
Francis King wrote some 30 novels but believed he was never viewed as a major writer because ‘the public tends to like its novelists to write the same novel over and over again’
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Eka Kurniawan
Eka Kurniawan is the author of two novels
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Michelle de Kretser
Given that Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka, moved to Australia as a teenager and finished her education in Paris, it is no surprise that she was an editor for the Lonely Planet guides
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Benjamín Labatut
Benjamín Labatut was born in Rotterdam in 1980 and grew up in The Hague, Buenos Aires and Lima
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Nikita Lalwani
Nikita Lalwani credits a book by another Booker Prize shortlistee, Gerard Woodward’s I’ll Go to Bed at Noon (2004), as the novel that shifted her own view on what fiction could be
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John Lanchester
John Lanchester is an author and magazine contributor