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Carol Shields

Carol Shields was born in Chicago but spent much of her life in Canada and England. She published six novels and two collections of short stories

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Maria Stepanova

Maria Stepanova is a poet, essayist, journalist and the author of 10 poetry collections and three books of essays

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Hwang Sok-yong

Hwang Sok-yong was born in 1943 and is arguably Korea’s most renowned author

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Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie was born and grew up in Karachi, Pakistan. Her work has been translated into over 30 languages

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Tom Rob Smith

Tom Rob Smith’s Child 44 was, for its time, an unusual Booker Prize choice. Based on the true case of a Soviet child murderer, readers could treat the book as a thriller or as something more ambitious

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Marina Warner

Marina Warner is a pioneer in the academic study of myth, but in 1985 she was prominent for her provocative books reappraising the likes of the Virgin Mary and Joan of Arc as feminist figures

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Éric Vuillard

Éric Vuillard is a writer and filmmaker born in Lyon in 1968 who has written nine award-winning books

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Sam Thompson

Sam Thompson’s grandfather was a friend of Samuel Beckett – they went to school and university together. That’s been a bit intriguing,' he says, and an interest in style is apparent in his fiction

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Helen Stevenson

Helen Stevenson studied Modern languages at Oxford University, and has been translating literary texts from French to English for 25 years

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Jane Gardam

Jane Gardam was born in in Redcar, England. Her novel God on the Rocks was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1978