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Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis was born in Massachusetts, United States and is now a professor of creative writing at the University at Albany, New York
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Elaine Showalter discusses the work of Chinua Achebe at the Man Booker International prize in Fiction, June 28, 2007.
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Elaine Showalter
Elaine Showalter was the chair of the 2007 International Booker Prize judges. She is an American literary critic, feminist and writer.
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Anthony Thwaite
Anthony Thwaite was a poet to his marrow. As an editor, anthologiser, literary editor, literary executor to Philip Larkin and as a poet himself, verse was his metier.
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Edna Healey
Edna Healey, the wife of the Labour politician Denis Healey, was a writer of non-fiction books who memorably said of Mrs Thatcher: ‘She has no hinterland; in particular she has no sense of history.’
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Isabel Quigly
Isabel Quigly, who died in 2018, was born in Spain and her parents called her Elizabeth; however, the local priest refused to recognise the name and so she became Isabel instead.
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Gillian Reynolds
Gillian Reynolds has the distinction of being a radio reviewer for national newspapers for more than 50 years. She still believes radio to be ‘a medium of the future not a dusty relic’.
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P.D. James
P.D. James spent most of her life working in hospital administration and the civil service. She continued in her bureaucratic role until her retirement in 1979.
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Selina Hastings
Lady Selina Hastings, daughter of the 16th Earl of Huntingdon, is a biographer who has written highly-praised lives of Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, Rosamond Lehmann and Somerset Maugham.
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Allan Massie
Allan Massie was the inadvertent cause of a Booker Prize bust-up when, in 1991, one of the judges, Nicholas Mosely, resigned in protest at the non-shortlisting of Massie’s The Sins of the Father.