Candidate for a Booker Prize

I believe the answer is:

novel

(Other definitions for novel that I've seen before include "Scoop, say" , "Volume of prose fiction" , "Unusual; book" , "Fictional work" , "work of Dickens?" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.

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