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Roy Jacobsen
Roy Jacobsen was born in Oslo in 1954
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The Keepers of Truth
Set in the US in the 1970s, Michael Collins’ noirish mystery explores the obsessions that a brutal murder awakens in a small Midwestern town
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A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara’s deft depiction of heartbreak becomes a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance
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The Man Booker Prize 2016
The first American winner of the prize and the second in a row for the small independent publisher Oneworld. Paul Beatty triumphed with a satire about race relations in the US.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the author of nine novels. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in October 2021
The Man Booker International Prize fell in line with its Man Booker Prize sibling and became an annual award for a single book. Han Kang and her translator Deborah Smith scooped the first honours
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The International Booker Prize 2021
David Diop, a French writer and academic, won the prize with his unsettling tale, translated by Anna Moschovakis, of two Senegalese soldiers fighting in the trenches of the First World War
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The Man Booker Prize 2008
Aravind Adiga upset his countrymen with a portrayal of India as a country of corruption and servitude. The author was undaunted: ‘Fortunately, the political class doesn’t read.’
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My Name Is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout’s moving story shows how a simple hospital visit illuminates the tender relationship between an estranged mother and daughter
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Possession
The winner of the 1990 Booker Prize. Two modern-day academics uncover a secret affair between famous fictional poets in A.S. Byatt’s gloriously exhilarating novel of wit and romance