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The Man Booker Prize 2018
A feel-good tale when Anna Burns, who relied on a housing charity and food banks for shelter and sustenance as she wrote, took the prize and watched Milkman deliver huge sales
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The Booker Prize 2019
Like a corpse in a zombie-flick, the old problem of split winners came back to life and an almighty ruckus ensued when Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo shared the prize.
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The Booker Prize 2020
The pandemic prize, livestreamed in lieu of having the literary world in attendance, was a rags to rag-trade to riches story when the erstwhile fashion designer Douglas Stuart won
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The International Booker Prize 2020
The Dutch debut novelist Lucas Rijneveld, also a part-time dairy farmer, professed to be 'as happy as a cow with seven udders' upon winning the prize for The Discomfort of Evening, translated by Michele Hutchison
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The Deposition of Father McGreevy
A haunting fiction from Brian O'Doherty about a poor and isolated Irish village where all the women of potentially child-bearing age mysteriously die
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Catherine O'Flynn
Catherine O’Flynn’s What Was Lost was hailed on publication as a potent examination of the hollowness of contemporary life - something she had witnessed in her many previous jobs
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Joseph O'Neill
Joseph O’Neill is a double Booker longlistee (2008 and 2014) who read law at university rather than English because ‘literature was too precious’ to demystify it by too much academic analysis
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Stephen Snyder
Stephen Snyder is a translator and professor of Japanese Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA
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Deborah Boliver Boehm
Deborah Boliver Boehm is a writer and translator
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Death By Water
Kenzaburo Oe's shimmering masterpiece revisits a father’s life and death in an astonishing blend of myth, fantasy, history and autobiography