Howard Jacobson has won the 2010 Man Booker Prize for fiction for his book The Finkler Question.

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Stevens is currently filming the third series of Downton Abbey and is on the judging panel for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

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American writer Lydia Davis has been awarded the Man Booker International prize for her "achievement in fiction on the world stage".

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Established in 1969, the Man Booker is the best-known fiction prize for English-language authors from Commonwealth countries and Ireland.

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