Sentence examples for previously shortlisted from inspiring English sources

Seven first-time novelists are included, while four of the writers have been previously shortlisted for the award.

The first chapter of the novel, The Shoe King of Shanghai, was previously shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG award.

Loop of Jade is her first collection, and was previously shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize, and for the Forward prize for best first collection.

Doreen Baingana, a Ugandan poet and novelist previously shortlisted for the Caine prize, was taken to task for writing about middle-class families.

Boyne was previously shortlisted for The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket in 2013 and Stay Where You Are and Then Leave in 2014.

Three authors on the list have been longlisted for the Prize before and a further eight authors have been previously shortlisted, two of those twice.

Bawden had previously been shortlisted for the Booker in 1987 for Circles of Deceit.

Earlier this year, Herrin received his second Olivier award nomination for his direction of James Graham's This House, having previously been shortlisted for Stenham's debut That Face.

In addition, any author who has previously been shortlisted may also send in a new work, and the judges must call in at least another eight books.

The shortlist also features her compatriot Hanya Yanagihara's increasingly dark exploration of the lives of four friends, A Little Life, which had previously been shortlisted for the Booker, and fellow American Elizabeth McKenzie's The Portable Veblen.

The Indian writer Kiran Desai last night became the youngest woman ever to take the £50,000 Man Booker Prize, proving victorious in the prestigious award for which her mother, Anita, has previously been shortlisted three times without success.