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definition of longlistee
noun
a book, or the author of a book, which is on a longlist of a prize
The British novelist’s The Stranger’s Child (Picador) was comfortably the bestselling Booker longlistee in the week the longlist was announced ... | His fellow Guardian children's fiction prize longlistee, Gregory Hughes, also caught the eye of the Booktrust judges with his debut novel ...
Submitted from United Kingdom on 04/08/2011 12:12:00
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