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Booker Prize 2020 postponed to avoid overlap with release of Barack Obama's memoir, A Promised Land
•It is unusual for the Booker, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, to delay its prize announcement for a single book’s release.
A Promised Land, first volume of Barack Obama's memoir, to come out on 17 November
•The 768-page book is the most anticipated presidential memoir in memory, as much or more because of the quality of the writing than for any possible revelations.