Marlon James or Douglas Stuart could snag a Booker double when the fiction prize is awarded
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Jamaican author Marlon James and Scotland’s Douglas Stuart have the chance to become two-time Booker Prize winners when the prestigious fiction award is handed out Monday in London.Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is also on a six-book shortlist — whittled down from 163 submitted novels — that judges called “moving, pacey, funny, violent, intriguing, horrifying and hopeful.” James is the oddsmakers’ favorite to take the 50,000 pound ($67,000) prize with “The Disappearers,” about a group of gay men in a hostile 1980s Jamaica. Also favored is Stuart’s “ John of John,” a story of father-son secrets on a remote Scottish island.A win by either one would make that author the fifth double Booker winner, after J.M. Coetzee, Peter Carey, Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood. James won the Booker in 2015 for “A Brief History of Seven Killings” and Stuart took the prize in 2020 for “Shuggie Bain.”Strout is on the shortlist with her story of a small-town New England teacher in crisis, “The Thin