Broadcaster Nick Ross, chair of the judging panel, said picking a winner would be extremely tough.
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They are the only major British book awards to include scholars and students on the judging panel.
However, the judging panel did see 536 different shows over the three weeks of the Fringe.
Singer Jarvis Cocker and actress Anjelica Huston are among members of the judging panel for best film.
The judging panel included actress Jenny Agutter, broadcaster Katie Derham, author Wendy Holden and writer DJ Taylor.
"If I'm lucky enough to get picked I think the judging panel allocates you a spot, " said Mr Davis.
Former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen, chair of the judging panel, created the competition along with the reading charity Booktrust.
The image was also highly commended by the judging panel, this time in the Nature in Black and White category.
Literary critic and journalist Maya Jaggi, who led the judging panel, said Tan's novel had "stylistic poise and probing intelligence".
The BBC's political editor Andrew Marr will head the judging panel of one of the UK's leading non-fiction book awards.
The judging panel includes Paul Farley, who won the Forward Poetry Prize in 1998 and the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2002.
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Poets Michael Longley and David Morley are also on the judging panel.
"This double accolade is uniquely deserved, " said Sir Peter Stothard, chairman of the judging panel and editor of the Times Literary Supplement.
The judging panel comprises of David Mackay, MBM Architects Barcelona and Professor Andy McMillan, former head of Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art.
The British literary critic and scholar was joined on the judging panel by authors Elif Batuman, Aminatta Forna, Yiyun Li and Tim Parks.
Stevens is currently filming the third series of Downton Abbey and is on the judging panel for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
The judging panel included novelist Zadie Smith and artist Gary Hume.
The judging panel comprised of David Mackay, MBM Architects Barcelona and Professor Andy McMillan, former head of Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art.
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The judging panel, which included children, a librarian, a publisher, a critic and a book seller, was chaired by BBC Radio 4 broadcaster James Naughtie.
Having new Judges or augmenting the judging panel with additional judges!
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"This story introduced the viewer to something new, an African tribe in India few know about, " said Joel Kibazo, a journalist and member of the judging panel.
Of course, my track record for judge predictions has been much worse, as I wrote in my last post, about how I got the judging panel wrong.
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"Masterful storytelling is in evidence in the Carnegie list, with powerful narratives leaping out and pulling the reader in, " said Karen Robinson, chair of the judging panel for 2013.
The judging panel included former World and Commonwealth champion Liz McColgan, who was the Scottish ambassador for the Unsung Hero award along with BBC Radio Scotland's Sports Weekly programme.
The author - who took her surname from her stepfather - described her second Booker triumph as "an act of faith and a vote of confidence" from the judging panel.
Also shortlisted were contributions from actor Richard E Grant, US prosecutor Kenneth Starr for the Starr Report and former Home Secretary, Lord Hurd, who this year chaired the judging panel of the Booker Prize.
David Anderson, chief executive of South Ayrshire Council, who chaired the judging panel, said it was a record-breaking year for entries and it had been difficult to chose three finalists, "never mind choosing the final winner".
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The competition, which attracted 170 submissions, was inspired by New York's High Line -- a derelict section of elevated railroad which has been transformed into a park -- with co-founders Joshua David and Robert Hammond joining the judging panel.
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