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An apparent nova in M31 has been independently reported from three different observatories. Wolfgang Pietsch, P. Podigachoski, F. Haberl, M. Henze, and V. Burwitz, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik; A. Updike, Clemson University; P. Milne and G. Williams, University of Arizona; and D. H. Hartmann, Clemson University, report their discovery of 2009-11e on two sets of twelve 60-s stacked R-band CCD images obtained with the robotic 60-cm telescope of the Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System (Super-LOTIS, located at Steward Observatory on Kitt Peak). The new object, at R.A. = 0:42:35.31, Decl. = +41:12:59.1 (equinox 2000.0; positional uncertainty given as 0".4), or 102" west and 190" south of the center of M31, was first detected on Nov. 20.25 and 21.14 with respective magnitudes of 18.7 and 18.5 (the magnitudes being obtained from a photometric solution using R magnitudes of the Local Group Survey M31 catalogue of Massey et al. 2006, A.J. 131, 2478). No object is visible at the position of the presumed nova on a Super-LOTIS image from Nov. 19.25 (limiting R magnitude 19.0). M31N 2009-11e was already detected at mag 18.8 in the ultraviolet with the Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) and the UVW2 filter (bandpass 112-264 nm) in monitoring observations for nova M31N 2009-10b on Nov. 18.67 (two days before the optical detection). In the Swift UVOT uvw2 observations on Nov. 15.26 and in earlier observations, no object was visible at the position of 2009-11e down to a (3-sigma) limiting magnitude of around 20.5; the ultraviolet magnitudes are on the UVOT photometric system (cf. Poole et al. 2008, MNRAS 383, 627) and have not been corrected for extinction.