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Joshua Ferris was born in Illinois, USA. He is the author of four novels and one collection of short stories

Tibor Fischer was born in Stockport in 1959 of Hungarian parents. He was once nominated as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists

The American novelist and academic was shortlisted for her first – and so far only – novel, which was first written as a short story.

Michael Frayn was born in London and began his writing career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer

Jon Fosse has been nominated for the International Booker Prize twice, in 2020 and 2022. He was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native country and abroad

Proving that he is not a man to hold a grudge, John Fuller accepted a place on the panel of judges only a year after missing out on the prize as a nominee with Flying to Nowhere

Wioletta Greg is the author of six volumes of poetry and a novella, Swallowing Mercury

The New Zealand author Patricia Grace, a writer of novels, short stories and children’s books, was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2001 for her fifth novel Dogside Story

The Canadian writer’s novels and short-stories combine the strange and the everyday. She was longlisted for The Romantic, her tale of a lifelong, and unrequited, fixation

Linda Grant is the author of five non-fiction books and seven novels. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000