SAN FRANCISCO, March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Margaret Atwood, the Booker Prize-winning author of the internationally bestselling novel The Handmaid's Tale and one of

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Authors A.S. Byatt, J.M. Coetzee, Adam Foulds, Hilary Mantel, Simon Mawer and Sarah Waters have been nominated for Britain's Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The winner of the honor and an $83,000 cash award is to be announced at a ceremony in London Oct. 6.