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Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The winner of the Booker Prize is...
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Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an English author and philosopher, best known for her novels about sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in...
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Gordon Williams
Gordon M. Williams (born 1934) is a Scottish author. Born in Paisley, he moved to London to work as a journalist. He has written for television and is the author of over twenty novels including From Scenes Like These, shortlisted for the Booker...
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Nicholas Mosley
Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale, 7th Baronet MC (born 25 June 1923) is a British novelist. He is the eldest son of Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet and Lady Cynthia Mosley, a daughter of Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India and Foreign...
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P. H. Newby
Percy Howard Newby CBE (25 June 1918 – 6 September 1997) was an English novelist and broadcasting administrator. He was the first winner of the Booker Prize, his novel Something to Answer For having received the inaugural award in 1969.
P.H. Newby,...
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Barry England
Barry England (16 March, 1932 - 21 May 2009) was an English novelist and playwright. He is chiefly known for his 1969 thriller, Figures in a Landscape, which was nominated for the inaugural Booker Prize.
England was raised in a Roman Catholic...
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Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen, CBE (7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer.
Elixabeth Bowen was born in Dublin and later brought to Bowen’s Court in County Cork where she spent her summers. When her father...
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A. L. Barker
Audrey Lilian Barker (April 13, 1918 – February 21, 2002) was an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in St Pauls Cray, Kent and brought up in Beckenham. During her lifetime, she published ten collections of short stories and eleven...
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T. W. Wheeler
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Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor (née Coles; July 3, 1912 in Reading, Berkshire - November 19, 1975 in Penn, Buckinghamshire) was a popular English novelist and short story writer.
Elizabeth Coles was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1912. She was educated at The...
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Derek Robinson
Derek Robinson (born 1932) is a British author best known for his military aviation novels full of black humour. He has also written several books on some of the more sordid events in the history of Bristol, his home town, as well as guides to rugby...
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Thomas Kilroy
Thomas F. Kilroy (1934 - ), the Irish playwright and novelist, was born on 23 September 1934 in Green Street, Callan, County Kilkenny and studied at University College, Dublin. In his early career he was play editor at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. In...
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John Berger
John Peter Berger (born 5 November 1926) is an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a...
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Susan Hill
Susan Hill (born 5 February 1942) is a British author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include the The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror and I'm the King of the Castle for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971.
Susan...
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James Gordon Farrell
James Gordon Farrell (25 January 1935 – 11 August 1979), referred to by-and-large as J.G. Farrell, was a British novelist of Irish descent. Farrell gained prominence for his historical fiction, most notably his Empire Trilogy (Troubles, The Siege of...
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Elizabeth Mavor
Elizabeth Mavor is a British writer.
She is married to illustrator Haro Hodson, and has two sons and lives in Oxfordshire. She is best known as a novelist, and has written The Green Equinox, a biography of the Duchess of Kingston, The Ladies of...
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Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and...
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C. P. Snow
Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow CBE (15 October 1905–1 July 1980) was an English physicist and novelist, who also served several important positions in the UK government. He is perhaps best known for a series of novels known collectively as Strangers...
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Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923) is a South African writer, political activist and Nobel laureate.
Her writing has long dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. She was active in the anti-apartheid movement,...
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Stanley Middleton
Stanley Middleton FRSL (1 August 1919 – 25 July 2009) was a British novelist. He was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire and educated at High Pavement School, Stanley Road, Nottingham and University College Nottingham.
Middleton began writing at...
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE (born May 7, 1927) is a Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of...
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Brian Moore
Brian Moore (Christian name pronounced Bree-an) (25 August 1921 – 11 January 1999) was a Northern Irish novelist. He was acclaimed for his descriptions of life in Northern Ireland in the post-war era, in particular his explorations of the...
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David Storey
David Malcolm Storey (born 13 July 1933) is an English playwright, screenwriter, award winning novelist and a former professional Rugby League player.
Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, the son of a miner, and educated at QEGS Wakefield and at the Slade...
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R. C. Hutchinson
Ray Coryton Hutchinson (January 23, 1907 – July 3, 1975) was a best-selling British novelist. His 1975 novel Rising was short-listed for the Booker Prize.
He was born in Finchley, North London and educated at Monkton Combe School, near Bath. He...
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Barbara Pym
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist.
Pym was born in Oswestry, Shropshire. She was privately educated at Queen’s Park School, a girls school in Oswestry and from the age of twelve attended Huyton College...
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Paul Scott
Paul Mark Scott (25 March 1920 – 1 March 1978) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his monumental tetralogy the Raj Quartet. His novel Staying On won the Booker Prize for 1977.
Paul Scott was born in Southgate, north London,...
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Jennifer Johnston
Jennifer Johnston (born 12 January 1930 in Dublin) is an Irish novelist, winner of the Whitbread Book Award for The Old Jest in 1979, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1977. The Old Jest, a novel about the Irish War of Independence was...
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Caroline Blackwood
Lady Caroline Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (16 July 1931 – 14 February 1996) was a writer and artist's muse, and the eldest child of Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava and the brewery heiress Maureen Guinness.
A...
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Bernice Rubens
Bernice Rubens (July 26, 1928 – October 13, 2004) was a Booker Prize-winning Welsh novelist.
She was born in Cardiff, Wales, of Russian Jewish descent. She came from a very musical family, both her brothers becoming well-known classical musicians....
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André Brink
André Philippus Brink (born 29 May 1935 in Vrede) is a South African novelist. He writes in Afrikaans and English and is a Professor of English at the University of Cape Town.
In the 1960s he and Breyten Breytenbach were key figures in the Afrikaans...
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Jane Gardam
Jane Mary Gardam OBE (born 11 July 1928, Coatham, North Yorkshire) is a British author of children's and adult fiction. She also reviews for the Spectator and the Telegraph, and writes for BBC radio, where her current project is 6 programmes on the...
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V.S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul Kt. TC (born August 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago), commonly known as V. S. Naipaul, is a British novelist and essayist of Indo-Trinidadian descent. He is widely considered to be one of the masters of...
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Thomas Keneally
Thomas Michael Keneally AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction.
Born in Sydney, Keneally was educated at St Patrick's College, Strathfield, where a writing prize was named after him. He entered St...
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Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon CBE (born 22 September 1931) is an English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism. In her fiction, Weldon typically portrays contemporary women who find themselves trapped in oppressive situations...
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Julian Rathbone
Julian Christopher Rathbone (born 10 February 1935, Blackheath, London — d. 28 February 2008, Thorney Hill, Hampshire) was an English novelist.
Julian Rathbone attended Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was a contemporary of Bamber Gascoigne...
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William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate best known for his novel Lord of the Flies. He was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980, for his novel...
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Anthony Burgess
John Burgess Wilson (pseudonym Anthony Burgess) (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic.
His dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange, is by far his most famous novel, and...
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Julia O'Faolain
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D. M. Thomas
Donald Michael Thomas, known as D. M. Thomas (born 27 January 1935, Redruth, Cornwall, UK) is a Cornish novelist, poet, and translator. He attended Trewirgie Primary School and Redruth Grammar School before graduating with First Class Honours in...
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Molly Keane
Molly Keane (1905 – 1996) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born Mary Nesta Skrine in Ryston Cottage,Newbridge, County Kildare). She grew up in County Wexford and was educated at a boarding school in Bray, County Wicklow . She married Bobby...
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Anne Schlee
Ann Schlee (born in the United States 1934) is an English novelist.
She lived in the United States with her mother and grandparents until the end of World War II. After the war she lived in Cairo with her parents and later in Sudan and Eritrea. She...
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J. G. Ballard
James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist and short story writer. He was a prominent member of the New Wave movement in science fiction, but his best-known books are the controversial Crash (1973), an...
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Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. It has been posthumously...
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Anna Haycraft
Anna Haycraft was the real name of the British writer who wrote as Alice Thomas Ellis (September 9, 1932 – March 8, 2005). She was the author of numerous novels, and also of some non-fiction, including cookery books.
Originally Anna Lindholm, she...
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William Boyd
William Boyd, CBE (born 7 March 1952 in Accra, Ghana) is a Scottish novelist and screenwriter.
Of Scottish descent, William Andrew Murray Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana on 7 March 1952 and spent much of his early life there and in Nigeria where his...
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John Arden
John Arden (born 26 October 1930) is an award-winning English playwright from Barnsley (which at the time was in the West Riding of Yorkshire). His works tend to expose social issues of personal concern. He is a member of the Royal Society of...
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John Maxwell Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee (English pronunciation: /kʊtˈsiː/) (born 9 February 1940) is an author and academic from South Africa. He is now an Australian citizen and lives in South Australia. A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee...
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John Fuller
John Fuller (born 1 January 1937) is an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Fuller was born in Ashford, Kent, England, the son of poet and Oxford Professor Roy Fuller, and educated at St Paul's School and New...
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Malcolm Bradbury
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBE (7 September 1932, Sheffield, England – 27 November 2000) was a British author and academic.
Born in 1932 in Sheffield, Bradbury was the son of a railwayman; his family moved to London in 1935, but returned to...
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Anita Mason
Anita Mason (born 1942 in Bristol) is an English novelist.
An only child, her mother was a housewife, and her father worked at a factory that manufactured aircraft engines.
After studying English at Oxford University, Mason eventually began writing...
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Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner CBE (born 16 July 1928) is an English novelist and art historian who was born in Herne Hill, a suburb of London.
Brookner's father, Newson Bruckner, was a Polish immigrant, and her mother, Maude Schiska, was a singer whose father had...
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Anita Desai
Anita Mazumdar Desai (born June 24, 1937) is an Indian novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker prize three times. Her daughter, the author...
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J. L. Carr
Joseph Lloyd Carr (born 20 May 1912 Thirsk Junction, Carlton Miniott, Yorkshire – 26 February 1994 Kettering, Northamptonshire); who called himself "Jim" or even "James," was an English novelist, publisher, teacher, and eccentric.
Carr was born in...
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Keri Hulme
Keri Hulme (born March 9, 1947) is a New Zealand writer, best known for The Bone People, her only novel.
Hulme was born in Christchurch, in New Zealand's South Island. The daughter of a carpenter and a credit manager, she was the eldest of six...
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Jan Morris
Jan Morris CBE (born on 2 October, 1926 in Clevedon, Somerset, England) is a British historian, author and travel writer. Morris was educated at Lancing College, West Sussex, and Christ Church, Oxford, but is Welsh by heritage and adoption. Before...
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Robertson Davies
William Robertson Davies, CC, O.Ont, FRSC, FRSL (born August 28, 1913, at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Toronto, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known...
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC, O.Ont, FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian author, poet, critic, feminist and social campaigner. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award...
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro OBE (Japanese: カズオ・イシグロ (Kazuo Ishiguro) or 石黒 一雄 (Ishiguro Kazuo); born November 8, 1954) is a British novelist. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and his family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from...
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Timothy Mo
Timothy Peter Mo (毛翔青) (born December 30, 1950, Hong Kong) is an Anglo-Chinese novelist. Born to a Welsh-Yorkshire mother and a Hong Kong Chinese father, Mo lived in Hong Kong until the age of 10 before he moved to Britain, studying at St John's...
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Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd CBE (born 5 October, 1949, East Acton, Middlesex) is an English novelist and biographer with a particular interest in the history and culture of London.
Peter Ackroyd's mother worked in the personnel department of an engineering firm,...
