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James Kelman

James Kelman was born in Glasgow. His novel How Late It Was, How Late won the Booker Prize 1994

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A.S. Byatt

A.S. Byatt won the Booker Prize in 1990 with Possession and was shortlisted in 2009 with The Children’s Book. Writing, she said, ‘is simply the most important thing in my life’

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Peter Carey

Peter Carey is an Australian author who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang

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Bruce Chatwin

Bruce Chatwin was born in Sheffield, England. His novel Utz was nominated for the Booker Prize 1988

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Ben Okri

Sir Ben Okri is a poet, playwright and novelist. His novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1991

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Alan Hollinghurst

Born in Stroud, England, Alan Hollinghurst is a novelist, poet, short story writer and translator

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David Malouf

David Malouf was brought up in Brisbane, and is an internationally acclaimed and multi award-winning author

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Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje is the author of seven novels, a memoir, a non-fiction book on film and several books of poetry

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Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997 and has been translated into more than 40 languages

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Pat Barker

Pat Barker won the Man Booker Prize in 1995 for 'The Ghost Road'. She was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her 40s, after taking a short writing course taught by Angela Carter