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The Booker Prize 1993
At the time of his win, Roddy Doyle was better known for the screen versions of his books than for the books themselves. He had already won a BAFTA for The Commitments.
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The Booker Prize 1994
Another vintage controversy when James Kelman’s win with his profanity-laden How Late It Was, How Late loosed a few profanities itself among tender-souled readers and reviewers.
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The Booker Prize 1996
It seemed that last orders had been called too late for Graham Swift following his win; during a somnolent radio interview the following day he confessed to having ‘a massive hangover’.
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The Booker Prize 1997
Nearly 30 years after the prize’s inception, Arundhati Roy became the first Indian winner, with her debut novel. Roy, sidetracked by other things, took 20 years to release her second.
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Stefan Hertmans
Stefan Hertmans is a prizewinning author of many works.
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Jane Rogers
The struggle Jane Rogers faced before setting her book in the future was with herself. A present-day story meant ‘knee-jerk reactions’ but she was ‘very resistant to the move into the future!’
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The Booker Prize 1995
Pat Barker’s First World War Regeneration Trilogy had already built up a head of critical steam, so there was a sense of rightness when the final volume, The Ghost Road, triumphed.
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The Booker Prize 2000
Margaret Atwood wins big.
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The Man Booker Prize 2003
With Vernon God Little, DBC ‘Dirty But Clean’ Pierre brings a heady whiff of the bad boy, a quirky nom-de-plume, and a winner’s soul-cleansing act of contrition to the prize.
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The Man Booker Prize 2015
A rich winning book narrated in West Indian patois with bouts of poetry, and 75 characters – both living and dead – chipping in. Marlon James became the first Jamaican to win the prize