Others in literature on the list include Booker Prize-winning author Penelope Lively, 78, who is made a dame.
The Booker Prize in literature is not much money, but it is widely esteemed.
Award-winning author Hilary Mantel has begun writing a sequel to her 2009 Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall.
The author won the Booker Prize in 2012 and the Costa Book of the year in 2013.
Howard Jacobson has won the 2010 Man Booker Prize for fiction for his book The Finkler Question.
This year's Arabic Booker prize shortlist is dominated by gloomy works about the oppression that prevailed before 2011.
Ian McEwan and Peter Carey head the shortlist for the Booker prize, the literary world's most prestigious award.
Justine Jordan, the Guardian's deputy literary editor, said this year's Booker prize judges should be applauded for favouring eccentricity.
" Salman Rushdie is a novelist whose works include "Midnight's Children, " which won the Booker Prize, and "The Satanic Verses.
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The book was previously shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, which eventually went to Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies.
Banville is the first Irish winner of the Booker Prize since Roddy Doyle won with Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha in 1993.
The writer, who won the Booker Prize last year, also received the Costa Book of the Year for the novel in January.
Of such writing are Booker prize winners made (but not necessarily chosen).
The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989.
Booker Prize winning author Rohinton Mistry has also written extensively about Mumbai.
This year, he won the Akutagawa, Japan's equivalent of a Booker Prize, for his debut novel about a Catholic monk in 15th-century France.
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Winterhart is up against Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies, winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize, as well as Stephen May's Life!
Earlier this month, the novel, which deals with the personal and political aftermath of India's independence, won the Best of the Booker prize.
His 1994 follow-up novel, The Folding Star, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
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Just days after the sequel to Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall was announced, the author has revealed plans for a third instalment.
The general prize is often referred to as the "Booker prize for science writing", although the science prize winner often outsells its better-known counterpart.
Stevens is currently filming the third series of Downton Abbey and is on the judging panel for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel is among the high-profile authors who are to appear at the 17th Oxford Literary Festival, which has got under way.
The Man Booker Prize, which is open to writers from the UK, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland, announces its 2013 winner in October.
It is Hilary Mantel's second award for Bring Up The Bodies, a historical novel about Thomas Cromwell, which also won the 2012 Man Booker Prize.
The newspaper suggests the film's inability to find a distributor may be because the Booker Prize-winning novel was critical of former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi.
Unlike Amsterdam, which won him the 1998 Booker prize, most reviewers think this is the product of a great writer at the peak of his skills.
There were fears that the film may not be released in India because the Booker Prize-winning novel was critical of former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi.
On the fiction front, there were shout-outs for Tim Winton's much-loved Cloudstreet, Murray Bail's Eucalyptus, and Peter Carey's Booker prize-winning True History of the Kelly Gang.
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