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Two PGI Authors Shortlisted for 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

Two Penguin Group (USA) authors are on the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction shortlist, which was announced this week: Viking/Penguin author J.M. Coetzee for Summertime, which will be published in hardcover in December 2009 by Viking, and Riverhead author Sarah Waters for The Little Stranger, published this Spring. Having previously won in 1999 with Disgrace, and in 1983 with Life & Times of Michael K, South African writer J.M. Coetzee would be the first author to win the Man Booker Prize three times if successful this year. Sarah Waters has been shortlisted twice: for Fingersmith (2002) and The Night Watch (2006). The winner will be announced at a ceremony in London on October 6th.

To read the full press release, click here.

Read the first chapter of The Little Stranger.
 

Author Daniel Silva Shortlisted for Crime Thriller Award

Author Daniel Silva has been shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, given by the Crime Writers’ Association, for his book, Moscow Rules (Putnam/ Signet). The winners will be announced at a special ceremony in London on October 21st, and broadcast later that month on the British TV station ITV3. The ceremony will celebrate the crème de la crème of crime and thriller fiction with awards focusing on the best of British and International crime thriller novels.

To learn more about the award, click here.

Read an excerpt from Moscow Rules.

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