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James Lever

When Me Cheeta was longlisted for the prize, James Lever was assumed in some quarters to be a pseudonym; two of the names most frequently bandied about were Martin Amis and Wilf Self

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Yan Lianke

Prolific author Yan Lianke was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China

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David Lodge

Despite believing that ‘a committee is a blunt instrument of literary criticism’, the novelist David Lodge chaired a group of judges that came up with a roundly applauded winner

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Valeria Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and now lives in New York. She is the author of the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth

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Bernard MacLaverty

Bernard MacLaverty is an Irish fiction writer and novelist who lives in Glasgow. He has written five collections of stories and five novels

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Alain Mabanckou

Alain Mabanckou, nicknamed ‘the African Beckett’, grew up in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo, and studied law in Brazzaville and Paris

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Mazen Maarouf

Mazen Maarouf was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1978

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Hisham Matar

Hisham Matar was born in New York to Libyan parents, spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his life in London

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Anita Mason

Anita Mason was born in Bristol, England. She is the author of eight novels, as well as a number of short stories

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Jon McGregor

Jon McGregor, aged 26, became the Booker Prize’s youngest nominee when his first novel was longlisted. His second and fourth novels would also go on to be nominated