This year's prize attracted around 120 entries and the shortlist of five featured writers from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Congo and Kenya.
The competition drew over 300 entries, from established practices to recent graduates, and the shortlist of 20 will now be whittled down to a panel of six to eight firms, who will be able to bid for forthcoming Peabody projects of 20 homes or fewer.
THR also reported that Marvel was in the midst of hiring a writer to rewrite Don Payne's script and the shortlist of possible writers consists of John Collee, Robert Rodat, and Roger Avary.
Over a 15-month selection process a committee also considered people from America and Europe, outsiders from the Indian business scene and internal candidates.In retrospect its choice seems obvious, even though Mr Mistry, a non-executive director of Tata Sons, the group's holding company, was originally a member of the selection panel, and joined the shortlist of candidates only a few months ago.
The novel was in the longlist of the Man Booker Prize in 2002, and on the shortlist of the Dublin Impac Literary Award in 2004.
Simon Frith, chair of the judges, said yesterday that the winner of the pounds 20,000 Mercury Music prize would not be announced until the award dinner on September 8. Mr Frith, music critic and journalist, described the shortlist of the 10 best British and Irish albums of the year as slightly eccentric.
We had 19 books on the longlist and no-one felt terribly bad about what was left off and even on the shortlist of six, it was difficult but not impossible.
Two For Two and Fury head the shortlist of those drawn high, the former still improving for his new trainer and the latter now in blinkers and a big field, but Stirring Ballad (4.25) gets the nod on the other side of the track.
The leader of the new wave, the smooth-moving Guillermo Coria, is the first Argentine since Vilas to reach No. 3 in the world and is on the shortlist of favorites to win this year's French Open, which begins here on Monday.
As confidence in the team ebbed away and performances went from bad to worse, the Old Trafford hierarchy decided two months ago that they would have to abandon their rhetoric about putting in place a new dynasty and turn to the shortlist of elite hired guns who are habitually touted for the top jobs around Europe.
But if I did, and I saw the shortlist of games up for being the best game of all the games, of the games that came out in the past 12 months (or whatever the eligibility period is), I'd have Fallout 4 way down my personal ordering.
