Cory Doctorow is among the nominees for the Man Booker International Prize for fiction. Speculative fiction writers might take heart at this inclusion, regardless of the final outcome, which occurs around May. According to the prize's web site:

The Man Booker International Prize is significantly different from the annual Man Booker Prize for Fiction in that it highlights one writer's overall contribution to fiction on the world stage. In seeking out literary excellence the judges consider a writer's body of work rather than a single novel.

The selections for this prize are made by a small, international group of panelists. Publishers do not make recommendations. The nominees are:

• Peter Carey


• Evan S Connell


• Mahasweta Devi


• E.L. Doctorow


• James Kelman


• Mario Vargas Llosa


• Arnošt Lustig


• Alice Munro


• V S Naipaul


• Joyce Carol Oates


• Antonio Tabucchi


• Ngugi Wa Thiong


• Dubravka Ugresic


• Ludmila Ulitskaya

The judges are quite interesting, too: Jane Smiley (chair), Amit Chaudhuri and Andrey Kurkov. Their bios are here.