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The Booker Prize trophy: the story behind our distinctive statuette
The creator of children’s classics Meg and Mog, and Haunted House, Jan Pieńkowski also designed the Booker Prize trophy. Here is story behind the statuette.
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My Booker Valentine
There is, perhaps, no greater testament to the ups and downs of love than the diversity of experience represented in the Booker Library. Misadventures, scepticism, devotion, and joy are attendant. Should you find yourself staying in for the night on Valentine’s Day this year, we are here to help you identify the perfect Booker Prize companion based on your personality type in relationships.
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Richard Cobb (Chair)
Richard Cobb was a historian whose life was spent exploring the French Revolution. He set tongues flapping when he announced at the prize dinner that he had read neither Joyce nor Proust.
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Joanna Lumley
In 1985, Joanna Lumley was best known for playing the all-action Purdey in The New Avengers, nevertheless she found nothing absolutely fabulous about Keri Hulme’s The Bone People.
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J.W. Lambert
J.W. Lambert, who died a year after judging the prize, was a former literary editor of the Sunday Times, a broadcaster and editor of books with a particular interest in contemporary drama.
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Norman St John-Stevas
Norman St John-Stevas was one of the more colourful politicians of the age, a man who would sprinkle his conversations with Latin and mispronounce words to signal his fealty to earlier times.
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How Keri Hulme’s outsider story became one of the Booker Prize's most controversial winners
Forty years on, Keri Hulme’s violent, disturbing and poetic book The Bone People remains one of the most divisive novels in Booker Prize history
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The Booker Prize 2022 judges are announced
The judges for the Booker Prize 2022 are announced today, 11 January. Publishers are also now invited to submit their books for the 2022 prize.
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M. John Harrison
M. John Harrison, a genre-defying author and literary critic, has been hailed by writers including Olivia Laing, Robert MacFarlane and Neil Gaiman as one of the most brilliant prose stylists alive today.
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Helen Castor
Helen Castor was a judge for the 2022 Booker Prize which was won by Shehan Karunatilaka for his book, 'Seven Moons of Maali Almeida'. She is a historian of the middle ages and sixteenth century, a Bye-Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.