Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

male, 62 years old
al qaeda target, the West, the east, Western world, magical realism, ayatollah…BookerPrizewinner, booker prize
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981),...
John Banville

John Banville

male, 63 years old
Guinness Peat Aviation, booker prize, novelist, The Book of Evidence, Man Booker Prize, from County Wexford…BookerPrizewinner
Born in Wexford, Ireland on December 8, 1945, John Banville has been literary editor at the Irish Times since 1989, and is a prolific and astute...
Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Fitzgerald

female, deceased (2000)
English women writer, Women novelist, Women poet, booker prize, BookerPrizewinner, Biographer
Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December, 1916 - 28 April, 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning English poet, novelist and biographer.
John Berger

John Berger

male, 83 years old
World War II, British Military, painter, Ways of Seeing, John Peter Berger, English…BookerPrizewinner, booker prize
John Peter Berger (born November 5, 1926) is an art critic, novelist, painter and author. The best-known among his many works include the novel...
Peter Carey

Peter Carey

male, 66 years old
Bacchus Marsh, Peter Philip Carey, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, expatriate in the United States, Geelong Grammar School, From Victoria…BookerPrizewinner
Peter Philip Carey (born May 7, 1943) is an Australian novelist. Born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, and after living in Melbourne, London and Sydney,...
Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai

female, 38 years old
Hollins University alumni, Indian women writer, National Book Critics Circle, writer, Indian American, Indian…Man Booker Prize, BookerPrizewinner
Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author who is a citizen of India and a Permanent Resident of the United States. Her novel "The...
Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

female, 70 years old
Canadian, Feminist, Governor General's Award winning fiction writer, Governor General's Award winning poet, Authors selected for Canada Reads, literary criticism…BookerPrizewinner
Many commend Margaret Atwood for her ability of depicting individual and worldly troubles of universal concern (Study Guide). Over thirty years,...
Pat Barker

Pat Barker

female, 66 years old
The Floating Island, University of Durham, English historical novelist, Durham University, First World War, Man Booker Prize…booker prize, BookerPrizewinner
Pat Barker (born May 8, 1943) is an English writer and historian. She published her first novel, "Union Street", in 1982 and has since won critical...
Yann Martel

Yann Martel

male, 46 years old
life of pi, Man Booker Prize, nancy lee, salamanca, Canada Reads, novelist…booker prize, BookerPrizewinner
Yann Martel (born June 25, 1963 in Salamanca, Spain) is a Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel "Life of Pi". As an...