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Ted Rowlands
Ted Rowlands was a Welsh Labour Party MP for some 30 years, for Cardiff North and then Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney. He was elevated to the House of Lords in 2004.
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Polly Devlin
Polly Devlin was born in rural Northern Ireland and started her journalistic career at 21 when she won a talent competition, with the prize being a job at Vogue magazine in London.
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Anthony Curtis
Anthony Curtis, who died in 2014, was a life-long litterateur with a distinguished career as a lecturer, literary editor, journalist, critic and expert on Somerset Maugham.
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