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Booker Prize to Include Americans

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Previously had been reserved for British Commonwealth.

Technically, U.S. was once part of the British empire, right? So this isn’t too much of a stretch? The British Man Booker Prize announced on Saturday that the 2014 prize would include American authors, a first for the 44-year-old prize.

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