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List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize

Index List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize

The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. [1]

48 relations: Adam Foulds, Anita Desai, Black Swan Green, Brian Moore (novelist), C. P. Snow, Confederates (novel), David Holloway, Emma Donoghue, Fasting, Feasting, Five Star Billionaire, Goshawk Squadron, Gossip from the Forest, Grace Notes, Guinness Peat Aviation, Heat and Dust, Helen Trinca, In Custody (novel), Irish literature, Jennifer Johnston, John Arden, Kate Summerscale, List of book-based war films (1945–2000 wars), List of literary awards, List of people from Wolverhampton, List of St Anne's College, Oxford people, Literature of Northern Ireland, Lost Man Booker Prize, Ludmila's Broken English, Margaret Foster (disambiguation), Nina Bawden, On Chesil Beach, The Butcher Boy (novel), The Cornish Trilogy, The Essence of the Thing, The Kills (Richard House novel), The Reluctant Fundamentalist, The Sirian Experiments, Tim Parks, Umbrella (novel), Western canon, What's Bred in the Bone, William Trevor, 2012 Man Booker Prize, 2013 Man Booker Prize, 2014 Man Booker Prize, 2015 Man Booker Prize, 2016 Man Booker Prize, 2017 Man Booker Prize.

Adam Foulds

Adam Samuel James Foulds FRSL (born 8 October 1974) is a British novelist and poet.

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Anita Desai

Anita Desai (born 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Black Swan Green

Black Swan Green is a semi-autobiographical bildungsroman written by David Mitchell.

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Brian Moore (novelist)

Brian Moore (25 August 1921 – 11 January 1999), who has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel", was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States.

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C. P. Snow

Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, CBE (15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980) was a novelist and English physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government.

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Confederates (novel)

Confederates is a novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally which uses the American Civil War as its main subject matter.

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David Holloway

David Holloway may refer to.

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Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter.

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Fasting, Feasting

Fasting, Feasting is a novel by Indian writer Anita Desai, first published in 1999 in Great Britain by Chatto and Windus.

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Five Star Billionaire

Five Star Billionaire is a novel by Tash Aw, published in 2013.

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Goshawk Squadron

Goshawk Squadron is a 1971 black comedy novel by Derek Robinson which tells of the adventures of a squadron of SE5a pilots from January 1918 to the time of the German spring offensive of March 1918.

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Gossip from the Forest

Gossip from the Forest is a novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally which deals with the negotiations surrounding the ending of World War I.

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Grace Notes

Grace Notes is a novel by Bernard MacLaverty, first published in 1997.

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Guinness Peat Aviation

Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA) was a Commercial Aircraft Sales and Leasing company set up in 1975 by Aer Lingus, the Guinness Peat Group (a London-based financial services company) and Tony Ryan, then an Aer Lingus executive.

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Heat and Dust

Heat and Dust (1975) is a novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala which won the Booker Prize in 1975.

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Helen Trinca

Helen Trinca is an Australian journalist and author.

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In Custody (novel)

In Custody (1984) is a novel set in Delhi, India by Indian American writer Anita Desai.

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Irish literature

Irish literature comprises writings in the Irish, Latin, and English (including Ulster Scots) languages on the island of Ireland.

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Jennifer Johnston

Jennifer Johnston (born 12 January 1930 in Dublin) is an Irish novelist.

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John Arden

John Arden (26 October 1930 – 28 March 2012) was an English Marxist playwright who at his death was lauded as "one of the most significant British playwrights of the late 1950s and early 60s".

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Kate Summerscale

Kate Summerscale (born 1965) is an English writer and journalist.

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List of book-based war films (1945–2000 wars)

A list of films that are based on war books.

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List of literary awards

This is a list of literary awards from around the world.

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List of people from Wolverhampton

This is a list of notable people born in, or associated with, the city of Wolverhampton in England.

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List of St Anne's College, Oxford people

The following is a list of notable people associated with St Anne's College, Oxford, including alumni, academics, and Principals of the college.

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Literature of Northern Ireland

That part of the United Kingdom called Northern Ireland was created in 1922, with the partition of the island of Ireland.

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Lost Man Booker Prize

The Lost Man Booker Prize was a special edition of the Man Booker Prize awarded by a public vote in 2010 to a novel from 1970 as the books published in 1970 were not eligible for the Man Booker Prize due to a rules alteration; until 1970 the prize was awarded to books published in the previous year, while from 1971 onwards it was awarded to books published the same year as the award.

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Ludmila's Broken English

Ludmila's Broken English is the second novel by Booker Prize winner DBC Pierre.

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Margaret Foster (disambiguation)

Margaret Foster is a netball coach.

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Nina Bawden

Nina Bawden CBE FRSL JP (19 January 1925 – 22 August 2012) was an English novelist and children's writer.

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On Chesil Beach

On Chesil Beach is a 2007 novel/novella by British writer Ian McEwan.

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The Butcher Boy (novel)

The Butcher Boy is a 1992 novel by Patrick McCabe.

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The Cornish Trilogy

The Cornish Trilogy is three related novels by Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor Robertson Davies.

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The Essence of the Thing

The Essence of the Thing (1997) is a novel by Australian author Madeleine St John.

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The Kills (Richard House novel)

The Kills is a novel by Richard House, published in 2013.

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a novel by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid, published in 2007.

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The Sirian Experiments

The Sirian Experiments is a 1980 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing.

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Tim Parks

Timothy Harold Parks (born 19 December 1954 in Manchester) is a British novelist, translator, author and professor of literature.

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Umbrella (novel)

Umbrella is the ninth novel by Will Self, published in 2012.

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Western canon

The Western canon is the body of Western literature, European classical music, philosophy, and works of art that represents the high culture of Europe and North America: "a certain Western intellectual tradition that goes from, say, Socrates to Wittgenstein in philosophy, and from Homer to James Joyce in literature".

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What's Bred in the Bone

What's Bred in the Bone is the second novel in the Canadian writer Robertson Davies' Cornish Trilogy.

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William Trevor

William Trevor KBE (24 May 1928 – 20 November 2016) was an Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer.

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2012 Man Booker Prize

The 2012 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded on 16 October 2012.

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2013 Man Booker Prize

The 2013 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded on 15 October 2013 to Eleanor Catton for her novel The Luminaries.

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2014 Man Booker Prize

The 2014 Man Booker Prize for fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 14 October 2014.

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2015 Man Booker Prize

The 2015 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 13 October 2015.

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2016 Man Booker Prize

The 2016 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 25 October 2016.

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2017 Man Booker Prize

The 2017 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 17 October 2017.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_and_shortlisted_authors_of_the_Booker_Prize

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