LONDON The American authors Joshua Ferris and Karen Joy Fowler are among the six writers selected for the shortlist of the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, announced on Tuesday. Also on the shortlist are three British writers Howard Jacobson, Neel Mukherjee and Ali Smith and the Australian Richard Flanagan. The winner of the prize, worth around $80,000 and widely considered the most prestigious literary award in Britain, will be announced on Oct.14. This is the first time that the prize was open to writers beyond the Commonwealth.
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