Man Booker Prize - the shortlisted authors on stage

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  The shortlist for the 2012 Man Booker Prize is:
  
  Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists (Myrmidon Books)
  Deborah Levy, Swimming Home (And Other Stories/Faber & Faber)
  Hilary Mantel, Bring up the Bodies (Fourth Estate)
  Alison Moore, The Lighthouse (Salt)
  Will Self, Umbrella (Bloomsbury)Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis (Faber & Faber)
  
  
  

  The judges and Ion Trewin, Literary Director of the Man Booker Prize Foundation meeting earlier today to decide the winner

  
  

  Below the shortlisted authors.