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...“Inevitably it was hard to whittle down the longlist to six titles,” said Dame Stella Rimington, the former MI5 director-general and thriller writer who chairs the panel of judges....
...Dame Stella Rimington, who chairs the prize committee and is a former head of MI5, is a prolific author of spy novels....
...This year’s Man Booker judging panel includes Chris Mullin, the former Labour MP, and Matthew d’Ancona, the writer and journalist. The prize is £50,000....
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