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LONDON (AFP) - Salman Rushdie's latest novel "The Enchantress of Florence" is among the 13 books on the longlist for the 2008 Booker Prize, released on Tuesday. The 61-year-old's 1981 novel "Midnight's Children" was named as the greatest Booker Prize winner ever earlier this month, in an award marking 40 years of the prize.
One of the literary world's most prestigious awards, the annual Booker Prize goes to the best work of fiction by an author from the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
Bookmakers predicted that Rushdie's novel and Irish author Joseph O'Neill's book "Netherland" would be the favourites.
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