Today in brief: Two Australians on Lost Man Booker Prize short list , Colm Toibin on the exile's experience from Montreal to Beirut and Tim Minchin portrait wins Archibald prize
Colm Toibin writes about The Anger of Exile in the New York Review of Books.
Toibin looks at the experiences recounted in Rabih Alameddine's The Hakawati and Rawi Hage's Cockroach.
Two Australian have made the short list for the Lost Man Booker Prize.
The Sydney Morning Herald says Patrick White, nominated for The Vivisector and Shirley Hazzard's The Bay of Noon fell through the gap when the 1970 prize was moved form April to November, and only books published in that year were eligible.
The winner will be announced on May 19, chosen by a public vote.
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