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Jim Crace

Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of a dozen books, including Continent, winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize

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Shena Mackay

Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh. Her writing career began when she won a prize for a poem written when she was 14

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Ahdaf Soueif

Author and leading journalist Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo. She wrote the bestselling novel The Map of Love, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1999

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Martin Booth

An internationally renowned writer and biographer, Martin Booth was also an accomplished novelist

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Tim Parks

Tim Parks is unique among Booker Prize authors in also being shortlisted for a major sports book prize (for A Season with Verona) and a health book prize (for Teach Us to Sit Still)

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David Mitchell

David Mitchell has written nine novels and adapted his work for screen and stage. He was born in 1969 on the Lancashire coast, but was raised in Malvern, Worcestershire

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Michael Collins

Michael Collins was born in Limerick, Ireland. He is the author of six novels, and two collections of short stories

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Matthew Kneale

Born in London, Matthew Kneale is the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including Sweet Thames which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

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Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith is a multi-award-winning author, who made a huge impact with her first novel, White Teeth

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Ali Smith

Ali Smith was born in Inverness, Scotland. She is the author of several critically acclaimed and award-winning novels and short stories