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Man Booker & Orange Prize Winners
HILARY MANTEL WINS THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION
Hilary Mantel was named the winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for Wolf Hall, published by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, this week in London.
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel was picked from a shortlist of six titles by: A.S. Byatt, J.M. Coetzee, Adam Foulds, Simon Mawer and Sarah Waters.
Wolf Hall is set in the 1520s and tells the story of Thomas Cromwell's rise to prominence in the Tudor court. Hilary Mantel has been praised by critics for writing ‘a rich, absorbingly readable historical novel; she has made a significant shift in the way any of her readers interested in English history will henceforward think about Thomas Cromwell.'
Read the full, official Man Booker press release and a Q&A with Hilary Mantel at: http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1291
2009 MAN BOOKER PANEL OF JUDGES ANNOUNCED
The judging panel for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction was announced this week. The line-up consists of Lucasta Miller, biographer and critic; Michael Prodger, Literary Editor of the Sunday Telegraph; John Mullan, academic, journalist and broadcaster and Sue Perkins, comedian and broadcaster. James Naughtie, one of the UK’s best-known broadcasters, was announced as Chair of the Judges in November.
Ion Trewin, Literary Director of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, describes the 2009 Judging panel as, “A team of all the talents, wide-ranging in their specialist knowledge, but united in their passion for fiction”.
The longlist, ‘The Booker Dozen' – the 12 (or 13) titles under serious consideration for the prize – will be announced in early August 2009. The shortlist of six books will be announced in early September. The Man Booker Prize 2009 winner will be announced at an awards ceremony on Tuesday 6 October 2009.
MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER ANNOUNCED
Aravind Adiga has won the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The White Tiger, published by Atlantic, (distributed in New Zealand by Penguin).
Thirty-three year old Aravind Adiga, who has wanted to be a novelist since he was a boy, was born in Madras and now lives in Mumbai. The White Tiger is a 'compelling, angry and darkly humorous' novel about a man's journey from Indian village life to entrepreneurial success. It was described by one reviewer as an ‘unadorned portrait' of India seen ‘from the bottom of the heap'.
Aravind Adiga is the fourth Indian born-author to win the prize, joining compatriots Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai who won the prize in 1981, 1997 and 2006 respectively. A fifth winner, V S Naipaul is of Indian ancestry. In addition, The White Tiger is the ninth winning novel to take its inspiration from India or Indian identity.
Michael Portillo comments,
‘The judges found the decision difficult because the shortlist contained such strong candidates. In the end, The White Tiger prevailed because the judges felt that it shocked and entertained in equal measure.
‘The novel undertakes the extraordinarily difficult task of gaining and holding the reader's sympathy for a thoroughgoing villain. The book gains from dealing with pressing social issues and significant global developments with astonishing humour.’
Over and above his prize of £50,000, Aravind Adiga may expect a huge increase in sales and recognition worldwide. Each of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, receives £2,500 and a designer-bound edition of their book.
The judging panel for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comprised: Michael Portillo, former MP and Cabinet Minister; Alex Clark, editor of Granta; Louise Doughty, novelist; James Heneage, founder of Ottakar's bookshops; and Hardeep Singh Kohli, TV and radio broadcaster.
Man Booker 2008 Shortlist Announced
Aravind Adiga, Sebastian Barry, Amitav Ghosh, Linda Grant, Philip Hensher and Steve Toltz are the six authors shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008, the English-speaking world's most important literary award. The shortlist was announced by the chair of judges, Michael Portillo, at a press conference in London on Tuesday.
The six shortlisted books chosen from a longlist of 13 are:
Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger (Atlantic)
Sebastian Barry – The Secret Scripture (Faber and Faber)
Amitav Ghosh – Sea of Poppies (John Murray)
Linda Grant – The Clothes on Their Backs (Virago)
Philip Hensher – The Northern Clemency (Fourth Estate)
Steve Toltz – A Fraction of the Whole (Hamish Hamilton)
The winner receives £50,000 and can look forward to greatly increased sales and worldwide recognition. Each of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, receives £2,500 and a designer bound edition of their own book.
The winner will be announced on Tuesday 14 October. View more information at www.themanbookerprize.com
Man Booker Prize Winners
The judging panel 2008Man Booker 2008 longlist
The ‘Man Booker Dozen’ 2008
The longlist for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on Tuesday 29 July 2008.
Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger
Atlantic
Born in a village in heartland India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by...
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Gaynor Arnold
Girl in a Blue Dress
Tindal Street Press
Alfred Gibson’s funeral has taken place at Westminster Abbey, and Dorothea, his wife of twenty years, has not been invited....
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Sebastian Barry
The Secret Scripture
Faber & Faber
Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges - of Roseanne’s family in 1930s Sligo - is at once...
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John Berger
From A to X
Verso
In a dusty, ramshackle town lives A’ida. Her insurgent lover Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A’ida’s letters...
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Michelle de Kretser
The Lost Dog
Chatto & Windus
Set in present-day Australia and mid-20th-century India, here is a haunting, layered work that vividly contrasts new cityscapes and their...
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Amitav Ghosh
Sea of Poppies
John Murray
In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt...
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Linda Grant
The Clothes on Their Backs
Virago
In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from...
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Mohammed Hanif
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Jonathan Cape
This playful and bold debut novel explores the conspiracy theories surrounding the mysterious plane crash that killed General Zia. The...
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Philip Hensher
The Northern Clemency
Fourth Estate
Set in Sheffield, The Northern Clemency charts the relationship between two families: Malcolm and Katherine Glover and their three children;...
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Joseph O’Neill
Netherland
Fourth Estate
Lost in a country he’d regarded as his new home, Hans sought comfort in a most alien place - the...
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Salman Rushdie
The Enchantress of Florence
Jonathan Cape
The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world....
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Tom Rob Smith
Child 44
Simon & Schuster
In Stalin’s Soviet Union, millions live in fear. Death is a whisper away. The mere suspicion of ideological disloyalty sends...
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Steve Toltz
A Fraction of the Whole
Hamish Hamilton
As he recollects the events that led to his father’s demise, Jasper recounts a boyhood of outrageous schemes and shocking...
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Thursday 14 September 2006 16:25 - THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED 2006
KIRAN DESAI, KATE GRENVILLE, M.J. HYLAND, HISHAM MATAR, EDWARD ST AUBYN and SARAH WATERS are the six authors shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006, the UK’s pre-eminent literary award. The shortlist was announced by the chair of judges, Hermione Lee, at a press conference at Man Group plc offices in London today (Thursday 14th September).
The six shortlisted books were chosen from a longlist of 19 and are:
Desai, Kiran The Inheritance of Loss - Hamish Hamilton
Grenville, Kate The Secret River - Canongate
Hyland, M.J. Carry Me Down - Canongate
Matar, Hisham In the Country of Men - Viking
St Aubyn, Edward Mother’s Milk - Picador
Waters, Sarah The Night Watch - Virago
Hermione Lee, Chair of Judges, comments:
“Each of these novels has what we as judges were most looking for, a distinctive original voice, an audacious imagination that takes readers to undiscovered countries of the mind, a strong power of story-telling and a historical truthfulness. Each of these novels creates a world you inhabit without question or distrust while you are reading, and a mood, an atmosphere, which lasts long after the reading is over.”
The winner receives £50,000 with a guaranteed increase in sales and recognition worldwide. Each of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, receives £2,500 and a designer bound edition of their own book.
The judging panel for the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction is: Hermione Lee (Chair), biographer, academic and a reviewer; Simon Armitage, poet and novelist; Candia McWilliam, award-winning novelist; critic Anthony Quinn; and actor Fiona Shaw.
The winner will be announced on Tuesday 10th October at an awards ceremony at the Guildhall, London.
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The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Hamish Hamilton, £16.99
In the north-eastern Himalayas, at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga, in an isolated and crumbling house, there lives an embittered old judge, who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and the son of his chatty cook trying to stay a step ahead of US immigration services, this is far from easy.
Kiran Desai was born in India in September 1971, and was educated in India, England and the United States. She is the daughter of the author, Anita Desai, who herself has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Kiran Desai’s first book was Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998) which went on to win a Betty Trask Award. She is currently a student in Columbia University's creative writing course.
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Canongate, £12.99
London, 1806 – William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake for which he and his family are made to pay for dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. On arrival in this harsh and alien land, William takes a hundred acres of land for himself and is shocked to find aboriginal people are already living on the river.
Kate Grenville was born in Sydney in October 1950 and spent seven years in Europe and the USA working and studying. She holds degrees from the University of Sydney and the University of Colorado and has worked as a film editor, journalist, typist and teacher. Her novels include The Idea of Perfection (2002) which won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2001. The Secret River won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2006. Grenville has also written two non-fiction books and currently lives in Sydney with her husband and two children.
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
Canongate, £9.99
John Egan has an unusual talent: he knows when people are lying. He hopes that one day this gift will bring him fame and guarantee his entry into the Guinness Book of World Records, but until then, he must deal with the destructive undercurrents of his loving but fragile family. However, John’s obsession with uncovering the truth soon becomes a violent and frightening fixation.
M.J. Hyland was born in London to Irish parents in June 1968. She spent her early childhood in Dublin and when she was eleven the family relocated to Australia and settled in Melbourne. Hyland worked as a lawyer for six years after completing an Arts/Law degree at the University of Melbourne in 1996. Her first novel How the Light Gets In (2004) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and she has also won the Sydney Morning Herald Award for Best Australian Novelist (2004). She currently lives and works in Manchester.
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
Viking, £12.99
On a white hot day in Tripoli in the summer of 1979 nine year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business - but Suleiman is sure he has just seen him, standing across the street in a pair of dark glasses. But why isn’t he waving? And why doesn’t he come over when he knows Suleiman’s mother is falling apart? Whispers and fears intensify around Suleiman and he begins to wonder whether his father has disappeared for good.
Hisham Matar was born in New York in November 1970 and spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo before moving back to Britain. He studied architecture at Goldsmith’s College and in 1990, when he was a student, his father - a Libyan dissident living in Cairo - was kidnapped, taken back to Tripoli, imprisoned and tortured and there has been no word since 1995. In the Country of Men is his first novel. Matar has lived in London since 1986.
Mother’s Milk by Edward St Aubyn
Picador, £12.99
The Melrose family is in peril. From young Robert, who provides an exceptionally droll account of being born, to Patrick, a hilariously churlish husband who has been sexually abandoned by his wife in favour of motherhood, to Mary, who is consumed both by her children and by an overwhelming desire not to repeat the mistakes of her own mother, St Aubyn uncovers the web of false promises that entangle this once illustrious family.
Edward St. Aubyn was born in 1960 in a part of Cornwall that has been inhabited by the St Aubyns since the Norman conquest. He was raped by his father as a child, abuse which continued until, at the age of eight, he confronted him. At the age of sixteen, he became a heroin addict and this habit continued at Oxford University. At twenty eight, he contemplated suicide but desperately wanted to write so sought the help of a therapist. In talking through the events in his life, he won a kind of freedom and was able to finally use the material to devastating effect in his fiction.
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The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Virago, £16.99
This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger. Helen, clever, sweet, much loved, harbours a painful secret and Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly loyal to her brother, Duncan, an apparent innocent who has had his own demons to fight during the war. Their lives and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways; war leads to strange alliances.
Sarah Waters was born in July 1966 in Neyland, Pembrokeshire and went to the University of Canterbury. Her first book, the Victorian lesbian novel Tipping the Velvet won a Betty Trask Award in 1999 and was adapted into a three part television serial, taking the same title, on BBC2 in 2002. Fingersmith, published in 2002 was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize as well as the Orange Prize. This was also televised as a serial on BBC1 in 2005. Sarah Waters lives in London.
Monday 14 August 2006 17:25 - Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006 Longlist
The judging panel for the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction today (Monday 14th August) announces the longlist of books for this year.
The longlist of 19 books was chosen from 112 entries; 95 were submitted for the prize and 17 were called in by the panel of judges.
Chair of judges, Hermione Lee, comments:
"Judging the Man Booker Prize puts you through almost as many emotions as there are in the novels. We’ve tried to be careful and critical judges as well as being passionately involved. We have many regrets about some of the novels we’ve left off, and we could easily have had a longlist of about 30 books, but we’re delighted with the variety, the originality, the drama and craft, the human interest and the strong voices in this longlist. It’s a list in which famous established novelists rub shoulders with little known newcomers. We hope that people will leap at it for their late summer reading and make up their own shortlist.”
The judging panel for the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction is: Hermione Lee (Chair); Simon Armitage, poet and novelist; Candia McWilliam, award winning novelist; critic Anthony Quinn and actor Fiona Shaw.
The 2006 shortlist will be announced on Thursday 14th September at a press conference at Man Group’s London office. The winner will be announced on Tuesday 10th October at an awards ceremony at Guildhall, London.
The longlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006 is as follows;
Carey, Peter Theft: A Love Story (Faber & Faber)
Desai, Kiran The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton)
Edric, Robert Gathering the Water (Doubleday)
Gordimer, Nadine Get a Life (Bloomsbury)
Grenville, Kate The Secret River (Canongate)
Hyland, M.J. Carry Me Down (Canongate)
Jacobson, Howard Kalooki Nights (Jonathan Cape)
Lasdun, James Seven Lies (Jonathan Cape)
Lawson, Mary The Other Side of the Bridge (Chatto & Windus)
McGregor, Jon So Many Ways to Begin (Bloomsbury)
Matar, Hisham In the Country of Men (Viking)
Messud, Claire The Emperor’s Children (Picador)
Mitchell, David Black Swan Green (Sceptre)
Murr, Naeem The Perfect Man (William Heinemann)
O’Hagan, Andrew Be Near Me (Faber & Faber)
Robertson, James The Testament of Gideon Mack (Hamish Hamilton)
St Aubyn, Edward Mother’s Milk (Picador)
Unsworth, Barry The Ruby in her Navel (Hamish Hamilton)
Waters, Sarah The Night Watch (Virago)
2005 - John Banville, The Sea
2004 - Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
2003 - DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
2002 - Yann Martel, Life of Pi
2001 - Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
2000 - Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
1999 - J M Coetzee, Disgrace
1998 - Ian McEwan, Amsterdam
1997 - Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
1996 - Graham Swift, Last Orders
1995 - Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
1994 - James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late
1993 - Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1992 - Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
1992 - Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
1991 - Ben Okri, The Famished Road
1990 - A S Byatt, Possession
1989 - Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
1988 - Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
1987 - Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
1986 - Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils
1985 - Keri Hulme, The Bone People
1984 - Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
1983 - J M Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
1982 - Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark
1981 - Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
1980 - William Golding, Rites of Passage
1979 - Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
1978 - Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
1977 - Paul Scott, Staying On
1976 - David Storey, Saville
1975 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
1974 - Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist
1974 - Stanley Middleton, Holiday
1973 - J G Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
1972 - John Berger, G
1971 - V S Naipaul, In a Free State
1970 - Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
1969 - P H Newby, Something to Answer For
Orange Prize
2005 winner We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
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Old Filth by Jane Gardam
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The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman
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Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
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2004 winner Small Island by Andrea Levy
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Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
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The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
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Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Ice Road by Gillian Slovo
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The Colour by Rose Tremain
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2003 winner Property by Valerie Martin
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Buddha Da by Anne Donovan
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Heligoland by Shena Mackay
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Unless by Carol Shields
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The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
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The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
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2002 winner Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
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No Bones by Anna Burns
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The Siege by Helen Dunmore
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The White Family by Maggie Gee
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A Child's Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper
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Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
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2001 winner The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
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Fred & Edie by Jill Dawson
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Hotel World by Ali Smith
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Homestead by Rosina Lippi
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Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley
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2000 winner When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
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If I Told You Once by Judy Budnitz
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Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
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The Dancers Dancing by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
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White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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1999 winner A Crime in the Neighbourhood by Suzanne Berne
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The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton
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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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Paradise by Toni Morrison
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The Leper's Companions by Julia Blackburn
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Visible Worlds by Marilyn Bowering
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1998 winner Larry's Party by Carol Shields
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Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
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The Ventriloquist's Tale by Pauline Melville
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The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
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Love Like Hate Adore by Deirdre Purcell
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The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
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1997 winner Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
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Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
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One by One in the Darkness by Deirdre Madden
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Accordion Crimes by E Annie Proulx
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Hen's Teeth by Manda Scott
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I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn
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1996 winner A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
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The Book of Colour by Julia Blackburn
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Spinsters by Pagan Kennedy
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
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Eveless Eden by Marianne Wiggins
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