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Patrick White
Patrick White was born in England, but soon after his birth his family emigrated to Australia. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973
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With the aid of her translator Marilyn Booth, Jokha Alharthi, the first female Omani writer to be translated into English, also became the first Arab writer to win the prize
Eleven years after it was published in Poland, Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights, a tale of time, space and the psychology of travelling, translated by Jennifer Crofts, won the International Booker Prize
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Nana Ekvtimishvili
Nana Ekvtimishvili, born in Tbilisi, Georgia, is a writer and film director. Published in 2015, The Pear Field is her first novel
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Alice Thomas Ellis
Alice Thomas Ellis was born in Liverpool, England. She wrote numerous novels and some non-fiction, including cookery books
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Lucy Ellmann
Lucy Ellmann is the daughter of two writers, Richard and Mary Ellman. Her eighth novel, Ducks, Newburyport was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019
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Barry England
Barry England was born in London. His best-known play, Conduct Unbecoming, was a huge success in New York
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Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux was born in Seine-Maritime, France, in September 1940. In October 2022 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
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Jenny Erpenbeck
Winner of the International Booker Prize 2024 for Kairos. Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967, and is an opera director, playwright and award-winning novelist
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Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante was born in Naples. This is all we know about her