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7 results found for '"Booker prize"' in Keywords.
Satanic Verses wins Whitbread novel award (1988)
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- Interview
Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses has been voted winner in the novel section of the Whitbread Literary awards but only made the shortlist of the Booker Prize. There have been rumours since the...
Kazuo Ishiguro wins Booker Prize (1989)
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- Interview; Speech
Speech by writer, Kazuo Ishiguro, following the award of the Booker Prize for his novel, The Remains of The Day. In his speech he paid tribute to Salman Rushdie, the author in hiding following the fatwa...
A.S. Byatt wins Booker prize (1990)
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- Interview
A.S. Byatt on winning the Booker prize for her Victorian romance novel, Possession, the positive aspects of the award for fiction, the effect of the end of the Net Book Agreement and her next projects....
Booker prize judging controversy (1991)
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- Interview
Interview with former Booker Prize judge Nicholas Mosely who discusses this years prize, and the reasons for his resignation from the judges board. Charlie Stayt interviews. For breakfast show.
Roddy Doyle wins Booker Prize (1993)
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- Interview; News report
Report on the 25th Booker Prize Awards at London’s Guildhall at which author Roddy Doyle won the grand prize for his novel, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. Speakers are writers Salman Rushdie and Malcolm Bradbury;...
Pat Barker wins Booker Prize (1995)
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- Speech
Speech by George Walden MP announcing the winner of the 1995 Booker Prize, The Ghost Road by Pat Barker which is met by cheers and applause.
Pat Barker wins Booker Prize (1995)
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- Speech
Part of acceptance speech by writer Pat Barker following the award of the 1995 Booker Prize, for her novel The Ghost Road on people seeing her writing style as masculine now she is writing about the First...