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Also Known As Booker Prize for Fiction • Booker McConnell Prize • Man Booker Prize
Notable Honorees Arundhati Roy • Salman Rushdie • Roddy Doyle • Margaret Atwood • Han Kang • John Banville • Michael Ondaatje • Hilary Mantel • John Berger • Ian McEwan • J.M. Coetzee • Penelope Fitzgerald • V.S. Naipaul • Kazuo Ishiguro • J.G. Farrell • A.S. Byatt • Iris Murdoch • Thomas Keneally • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala • Graham Swift • Nadine Gordimer • Penelope Lively • Peter Carey • Yann Martel • George Saunders • Anita Brookner • Kingsley Amis • David Storey • Anita Desai • Kiran Desai • Ben Okri • William Golding • Paul Scott • Stanley Middleton • Keri Hulme

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