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Man Booker International 2013 winner Lydia Davis
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The Man Booker International Prize 2013

The Man Booker International Prize 2013 was won by Lydia Davis, whose inventive, carefully crafted and hard-to-categorise works saw off the challenge from nine other contenders from around the world.
Lydia Davis
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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
Elaine Showalter
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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.
Anthony Thwaite
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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.
Edna Healey
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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.’
Isabel Quigly
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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.
Gillian Reynolds
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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’.
PD James
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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.