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The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. Winners are given in bold type at the start of each entry.- 1969: Percy Howard Newby , Something to Answer For
- 1971: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, In a Free State
- Thomas Kilroy , The Big Chapel
- Doris Lessing, Briefing for a Descent into Hell
- Mordecai Richler, St Urbain's Horseman
- Derek Robinson, Goshawk Squadron
- Elizabeth TaylorElizabeth Taylor ( 1912 1975) was a popular English novelist and short story writer of the mid-20th century. She was born Elizabeth Coles in Reading, Berkshire. She was educated at the Abbey School, Reading, and worked as a private tutor and as a libraria, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
- 19721972 is a leap year starting on Saturday (click link for calendar). Events January events January 2 the Pierre Hotel Heist Six men rob the safety deposit boxes of the Pierre Hotel in New York City. Loot is at least $4 million January 5 President of the Un: John Berger , G
- Susan Hill , Bird of Night
- Thomas KeneallyThomas Keneally (born October 7, 1935) also Tom Keneally is an Australian novelist. He is perhaps most famous for his Schindler's Ark ( 1982), which won the Booker Prize and is the basis of the film Schindler's List''. Many of his novels are reworkings of, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
- David Storey , Pasmore
- 1973Events January events January 1 United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community now known as the European Union January 3 Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led: James Gordon Farrell , The Siege of Krishnapur
- Beryl BainbridgeBeryl Bainbridge (born 1934) is an English novelist. She has been nominated for the Booker Prize several times, but has never won it. In spite of this, she has been described as one of the greatest living British novelists. Born in Liverpool, educated at, The Dressmaker
- Elizabeth Mavor , The Green Equinox
- Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
- 19741974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). Events January-February January 5 Dungeons & Dragons officially released. February 4 Patricia Hearst, the 19 year old granddaughter of publisher William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped: Nadine GordimerNadine Gordimer (b. November 20, 1923) is a South African novelist and writer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature and 1974 Booker Prize. She was born in Springs (an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg), the daughter of Isidore and Nan Gor, The Conservationist , and Stanley Middleton, Holiday
- 1976: David Storey , Saville
- André Brink , An Instant in the Wind
- R. C. Hutchinson , Rising
- Brian Moore, The Doctor's Wife
- Julian Rathbone , King Fisher Lives
- William Trevor, The Children of Dynmouth
- 1987: Penelope Lively , Moon Tiger
- 1994: James Kelman , How late it was, how late
- 2004: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
- Achmat Dangor , Bitter Fruit
- Sarah Hall , The Electric Michelangelo
- David Mitchell , Cloud Atlas
- Colm Tóibín , The Master
- Gerard Woodward , I'll go to Bed at Noon
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