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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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Barry Unsworth

Barry Unsworth was born in London. He published 17 novels, and is best known for his historical fiction

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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

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Keri Hulme

Keri Hulme was a New Zealand author and poet, principally known for her first novel, The Bone People, which won the Booker Prize 1985. She died on December 27th 2021

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Alice Munro

Alice Munro was born in Wingham, Canada. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013

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J.G. Ballard

J.G. Ballard was at the forefront of modern British fiction writing for over three decades and became a bestselling writer of international stature

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J.M. Coetzee

J.M. Coetzee is a multi-award-winning author, and was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature