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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