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Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin and made her writing debut with Under the Net in 1954. She wrote 26 novels and several books of philosophy

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Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh. A poet and novelist, she also wrote children’s books, radio plays, a comedy and biographies

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P. H. Newby

P.H. Newby was the first winner of the Booker Prize. He was a perpetual high achiever – a novelist and BBC mandarin who in 1969 became the first winner of the Booker Prize, for Something to Answer For

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John Berger

John Berger was born in London and educated at St Edward's School, Oxford. In 1962, he left Britain permanently, to live in a small village in the French Alps

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Penelope Fitzgerald

The novelist and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald won the Booker Prize in 1979 with Offshore before executing a poacher-turned-gamekeeper u-turn and joining the 1991 judging panel

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was born in Cologne, Germany. She wrote 12 novels, including the Booker Prize-winning Heat and Dust

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Penelope Lively

Penelope Lively won the Booker Prize in 1987 and has also been shortlisted twice – in 1977 and 1984

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Thomas Keneally

Thomas Keneally was born in Sydney, Australia, where he still lives. He began his writing career in 1964 and has published 33 novels since

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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