Marlon James, Douglas Stuart may become 5th multiple winner of Booker Prize award

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Marlon James and Douglas Stuart can become the fifth author to win the Booker Prize twice after both were shortlisted for arguably the U.K.’s most prestigious fiction accolade…

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