Douglas Hurd
1998 Judge (Chair)
Douglas Hurd was the chair of the Booker Prize judges in 1998 along with Nigella Lawson, Penelope Fitzgerald, Valentine Cunningham and Miriam Gross. He is a politician, biographer and novelist.
Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, as Minister for Europe (1979-83), Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1984-85), Home Secretary (1985-89) and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1989-95).
In 1997, he was elevated to the House of Lords where he served until his retirement from the house in 2016. His books include Robert Peel: A Biography and, with Edward Young, Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary - 200 Years of Argument, Success and Failure and his memoirs.
- Prizes judged
- The Booker Prize 1998
1998 Booker Prize judges
Winner The Booker Prize 1998
- By
- Ian McEwan
- Published by
- Jonathan Cape
A fragile friendship descends into hatred and revenge, in Ian McEwan’s darkly humorous 1998 Booker Prize-winning novel.
