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Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, South Africa. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991
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William Golding
William Golding was born Newquay, England. He is considered by many to be the greatest English novelist of the last 50 years
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Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester, England. He is widely recognised as one of the world’s finest and most versatile novelists
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Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis was born in London. He is renowned as one of the finest English comic novelists of the second half of the 20th century
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Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie has been nominated for the Booker Prize seven times, winning in 1981, and was knighted for services to literature in 2007
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Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes is the author of 13 novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the Booker Prize 2011
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Anita Brookner
Over the course of 28 years, Anita Brookner wrote 24 books. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her final one, Strangers, in 2009
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Barry Unsworth
Barry Unsworth was born in London. He published 17 novels, and is best known for his historical fiction
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Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan, born in Aldershot, England, is a critically acclaimed author and winner of the Booker Prize 1998
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Anita Desai
Anita Desai has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times – 1980, 1984 and in 1999. She was born in Mussoorie, India and is the author of many novels and short stories