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unusual facts about The Booker Prize



Carmen Callil

She was a Member of the Committee for The Booker Prize, 1979–1984; a founder Director of The Groucho Club, London, 1984–1994 and in 1989 received the Distinguished Service Award from the International Women's Writing Guild.


see also

Puducherry

Puducherry was the setting for the first third of the Booker prize-winning novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

Vintage Classics

There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list, including writers such as Iris Murdoch, who won the Booker Prize for her novel, The Sea, the Sea, and also has been longlisted in the category of Lost Man Booker Prize for her novel, A Fairly Honourable Defeat.