Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

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

Yann Martel

male, 46 years old
life of pi, Man Booker Prize, nancy lee, salamanca, Canada Reads, novelist…bookerprize, Booker Prize winner
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...
Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer

female, 86 years old
apartheid, Hiv/aids, lithuanian, Anti-Apartheid activist, from Gauteng Province, African National Congress…nobel prize in literature, bookerprize, Booker Prize winner
Nadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923) is a South African writer, political activist and winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature. Her writing...
Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje

male, 66 years old
Governor General's Award winning fiction writer, poet, sri lankan, Booker Prize winner, the english patient, Queen's University alumni…bookerprize
Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC,, (born 12 September, 1943) is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist and poet, perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning...
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…bookerprize, Booker Prize winner
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...
David Mitchell

David Mitchell

male, 40 years old
Time Magazine, novelist, English, merseyside, University of Kent, From southport…John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Man Booker Prize, bookerprize, Booker Prize winner
David Mitchell (born January, 1969) is an English novelist. He has written four novels, two of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The...
Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst

male, 55 years old
Old Canfordian, Magdalen College, Oxford, Stroud, Gloucestershire, Newdigate prize, Man Booker Prize, Stonewall Book Award winner…bookerprize, Booker Prize winner
Alan Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is a British novelist, and winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for "The Line of Beauty".
John Berger

John Berger

male, 83 years old
World War II, British Military, painter, Ways of Seeing, John Peter Berger, English…Booker Prize winner, bookerprize
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...
Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Fitzgerald

female, deceased (2000)
English women writer, Women novelist, Women poet, bookerprize, Booker Prize winner, Biographer
Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December, 1916 - 28 April, 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning English poet, novelist and biographer.
Graham Swift

Graham Swift

male, 60 years old
the Fens, waterland, Old Alleynian, English, Last Orders, Alumni of the University of York…Booker Prize winner, bookerprize
Graham Colin Swift (born May 4, 1949) is a well-known British author. He was born in London, England and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. :)...