The chances of an Indian origin author winning the prestigious £30,000 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Book of the Year Award 2010 has shortened to one in three.
This is because the shortlist of six, just announced, includes: The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar (Little, Brown, Twelve/Hachette Group) and Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram Rajan (Princeton University Press).
The judges include Uganda-born Baroness Shriti Vadera, who made grown men weep, it is alleged, when she was Gordon Brown’s adviser at the Treasury.
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