Man Booker Prize

Getting out of a pair of handcuffs was one of Harry Houdini's oldest tricks. In 1904, during a performance in London, the illusionist was manacled in a pair on which a blacksmith had spent five years perfecting the locking mechanism, claiming "no mortal man" could pick it. It took Houdini more an hour and 10 minutes to get out of them.

"A Strangeness in My Mind" by Turkey's Nobel laureate writer Orhan Pamuk is among the six books shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize for literature announced on April 14. The longlist for the prize included books from 155 writers from 12 countries in nine different languages.

Turkey's Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk has been nominated for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for his novel "Kafamda Bir Tuhafl?k" (A Strangeness in My Mind). 

The prize celebrates the best in global fiction, with 13 books in contention. The longlist for the prize included books from 155 writers 12 different countries in nine different languages. 

Booker Prize winning novelist Richard Flanagan said he was "ashamed to be Australian" during a scathing attack on the environmental policies of his home nation.