LONDON | Tue Sep 6, 2011 2:20 pm EDT

London (Reuters)-English writer Julian Barnes was one of the six authors shortlisted for the coveted the Man Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday, and is the favorite of bettors to win the award when it is announced in October.

Barnes's novel "the sense of a final," about an ordinary man who meditates on the absence of drama in his life, was praised as "technically wonderful" by the Panel of five judges, chaired by sponsor-turned-British author Dame Stella Rimington.

It marks the fourth appearance of Barnes in the following list of "parrot" Flaubert (1984), "England, England" (1998) and "Arthur and George" (2005). He has not won so far.

"Book of Julian Barnes is the book most obvious on the candidate list and perhaps the most expected as was also revised," Gaby Wood, judge and head of books in the newspaper the Daily Telegraph of Britain told reporters at the inauguration of the list.

"Is a small, quiet and is not only amazing but actively shocking. In purely technical terms is that the most wonderful distillation of ideas (Barnes) has been rehearsing throughout his life. It does something weird and awkward shiveringly family. "

Barnes relationship with the Man Booker Prize, one of the world's most important English-language fiction, not always been easy.

He once refers to him as "posh bingo" and berated the judges to be "inflated by their brief celebrity."

Also on the list of candidates this year are two first novelists-Stephen Kelman ("pigeon English") and A.D. Miller ("Snowdrops") — and two Canadians-Patrick deWitt ("the brothers sisters") and Esi Edugyan ("Half Blood Blues"). Of candidates is Carol Birch with "Jamrach Menagerie".

The six books were reduced from a longlist of 13 books. The prize, worth 50,000 pounds ($ 80,530) to the winner, as well as the likelihood of a huge boost in sales of the winning book will be delivered on 18 October.

The bookmakers Ladbrokes has called Barnes as favorite at odds of 13/8, while Birch and Miller are the second set of 7/2 favourite to win the award.

Two novels were appointed by his linguistic dexterity; the sound quality of jazz writing "Half Blood Blues", and for innovative storytelling using Kelman's hybrid dialect in "Pigeon English".

Susan Hill, judge and award-winning author, said "Half Blood Blues," the tale of the mysterious disappearance of a rising jazz star, black, Hieronymous Falk in 1940, it was not, initially, a novel that she would be picked from a bookshelf.

However, she described him as one of the more novels "originals, guaranteed and emotional" she had read.

"It is very different from any other novel-is a vibrant and tense about war and its consequences and what it means to betray", she said.

"does not put a foot wrong. She writes about music so we can hear-not just read the words, but we can hear him and beat out your pace. "

"Pigeon English" compared by the judges, the cult classic "A Clockwork Orange Burgess" due to its mixture of Southeast London English and patois Ghanaian, was described by the Panel as "magnificent" and a "triumph" language.

Hype surrounding the publication of the novel has compared the story to the case of Damilola Taylor, a high-profile British case of the murder of a 10 year-old boy in a depleted property in London in 2000.

But focusing on these similarities undersells the novel dramatically, said the judges.

"Which depicts the novel is a boy wonder and disillusionment with a society that is friendly and hostile, but the hostility is not from the forces that you would expect," said judge Matthew d'Ancona, a political writer and columnist.

Ancona, who described Kelman as a novelist, at the height of his writing, said that the novel had the "ability to support".

"Is a series of revelations about the world we live in. It fizzes with doubts and anxieties about the way we live now and, in some ways it was a grim prophecy the London riots, "he said.

Last year's winner was "The Finkler question," Howard Jacobsen who was described as the first novel to win the prize and has sold over 250,000 copies in the United Kingdom alone.

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