09.22.05:Zadie Smith on Short List for Booker

Barnes and Smith make Booker list

This is the first time Zadie Smith has made the Booker shortlist Bookmakers' favourite Julian Barnes and Zadie Smith have been named on the shortlist for this year's Booker Prize. But past winners Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and JM Coetzee - who were all on the longlist - failed to make the cut. Also shortlisted are Kazuo Ishiguro, Ali Smith, Sebastian Barry and John Banville. The winner will get £50,000. ... Zadie Smith's On Beauty, an homage to EM Forster's Howards End, has received mixed reviews from critics. Her first two works, White Teeth and The Autograph Man, failed to progress to the shortlist stage. Kazuo Ishiguro won the Booker for in 1989 Japan-born Kazuo Ishiguro is the only previous winner on the shortlist, for Never Let Me Go, about children who face the truth about seemingly happy childhoods in the English countryside. He won the Booker for in 1989 for The Remains of the Day, which was turned into a film starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. source BBC