David Grossman and his translator Jessica Cohen took the prize with a novel about a stand-up comic unravelling on stage – savage humour and excoriating pain proving to be mirror images
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Madeleine St John
Born in Sydney, Madeleine St John graduated from Sydney University and lived most of her life in London. She was the author of four novels
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Edward St Aubyn
Edward St Aubyn's is the author of the novels A Clue to the Exit, On the Edge, Lost for Words and Dunbar
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Manil Suri
An Indian-American mathematician who started writing in his spare time was longlisted for The Death of Vishnu, begun six years earlier, and the first volume of a trilogy named after Hindu deities
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Colin Thubron
Colin Thubron is an award-winning British travel writer and novelist, who was appointed a CBE in the 2007 New Year Honours
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Matt Thorne
Matt Thorne’s longlisting came four years after he founded the 'New Puritans', a group of writers determined to make stylistic and narrative simplicity the foundation of their fiction
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D.M. Thomas
D. M. Thomas was born in Redruth, England. He is a poet and novelist, and his 1981 novel The White Hotel is considered a modern classic
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Steve Toltz
Steve Toltz was born in Sydney. A Fraction of the Whole (2008) was his first book, followed by Quicksand (2015)
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Margaret Jull Costa
Margaret Elisabeth Jull Costa has translated the works of many Spanish and Portuguese writers. In 2014, she was awarded an OBE for services to literature
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Mac and His Problem
A masterpiece of metafiction, Mac and His Problem is Enrique Vila-Matas’s testament to the power and playfulness of great literature