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Brian Wenham
At the time of the prize, Brian Wenham was Controller of BBC2, where he was renowned for his laid-back approach and astrakhan hat. Under his watch, the station’s viewing figures rose by 50%.
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Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld was a novelist and short story writer who is best known for his Hebrew-language allegorical novels of the Holocaust
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Patty Dimond
Patty Dimond is a Non-Executive Director, Senior Independent Director & Chair of Audit & Risk on a number of FTSE Plc boards (and charities) building on an International Executive career in the consumer and financial sectors
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Annelise Finegan Wasmoen
Annelise Finegan Wasmoen was born in Philadelphia, USA, in September 1981
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An extract from The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2009, Sarah Waters’ chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain is full of rich atmosphere and psychological complexity
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Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes was a Mexican novelist and essayist
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Louise Richardson
Professor Dame Louise Richardson is President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. She was previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews
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Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle is a critically acclaimed writer and 1993 Booker Prize winner
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Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer who published her first book in 1963 and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry and non-fiction
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Don Bartlett
Don Bartlett is a freelance translator of Scandinavian literature