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Kate Kellaway
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Kate Kellaway

Kate Kellaway arrived in literary journalism after several years teaching English at a school in newly-independent Zimbabwe, where she gained the class nickname ‘Sssh Everybody’.
Peter Kemp
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Peter Kemp

Peter Kemp is a trenchant literary critic, who was nominated for the 2014 Hatchet Job of the Year award for a review in which he called Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch ‘a turkey’.
Adam Mars Jones 1995
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Adam Mars-Jones

Adam Mars-Jones is a critic and novelist who, clearly possessing preternaturally good genes, was selected as one of Granta’s 20 ‘Best of British Young Novelists’ in both 1983 and 1993.
Aminatta Forna
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Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna OBE is a Scottish and Sierra Leonean writer whose books have been translated into 22 languages.
Ruth Rendell
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Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell wrote both under her own name and as ‘Barbara Vine’. In both guises she was a prolific and hugely successful author of crime and mystery novels
Carmen Callil 1996
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Carmen Callil

The Australian-born Carmen Callil is a publisher, author and long-term champion of women’s writing. Her feminism, she says, is ‘concentrated on poltroonish men telling you what to do’.
Jonathan Coe 1996
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Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe is a novelist, biographer, musician and also the Duke of Prunes, his honorific as an aristocrat of the kingdom of Redonda, a small uninhabited island in the Caribbean.
Ian Jack 1996
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Ian Jack

Ian Jack is a journalist, author and former newspaper editor who believes that ‘Journalism is often at its most effective when it remembers its humblest duty - to witness and record.’
Professor Gillian Beer 1997
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Gillian Beer

Gillian Beer is an academic and two-time Booker Prize judge. For some 50 years she taught English literature at Cambridge, specialising in Victorian writers.