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Two longlists raise the literary stakes in weeks to come. Nominees for the Orange Prize for women novelists have just been announced, and the Man Booker International Prize to be made public in early June promises to become something of a Nobel lite.

Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
The Great Stink, Clare Clark
Escape Routes for Beginners, Kira Cochrane
Billie Morgan, Joolz enby
The Zigzag Way, Anita Desai
Hickey Tatty, Christine Dwyer
It So Happens, Patricia Ferguson
Away From You, Melanie Finn
Old Filth, Jane Gardam
The Mysteries of Glass, Sue Gee
Nelson8217;s Daughter, Miranda Hearn
Ursula, Under, Ingrid Hill
The Mammoth Cheese, Sheri Holman
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka
Black Dirt, Nell Leyshon
The Remedy, Michelle Lovric
Liars and Saints, Maile Meloy
The Falls,Joyce Carol Oates
We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
The River, Tricia Wastvedt

Man Booker International Prize, nominations

Margaret Atwood
Saul Bellow
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gunter Grass
Ismail Kadare
Milan Kundera
Stanislaw Lem
Doris
Lessing
Ian McEwan
Naguib Mahfouz
Tomas Eloy Martinez
Kenzaburo Oe
Cynthia Ozick
Philip Roth
Muriel Spark
Antonio Tabucchi
John Updike
AB Yehoshua