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Booker Prize

Great Britain · Arts / Literature. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

5Records
1986–2019Date range
5Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1986

Kingsley Amiss1986

Arts / Literature

Winner of the Booker Prize

1987

Peter Ackroyd1987

London · Arts / Literature

Winner of the Booker Prize for, "Hawksmoor"

Douglas Dunn1987

London · Arts / Literature

Winner of the Booker Prize for Poetry, "Elegies"

Jeanette Winterson1987

Arts / Literature

Winner of the Booker Prize for 1st novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"

2019

Bernardine Evaristo14 October 2019

London · Arts / Literature

Shares the Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other.

Names involved

Bernardine EvaristoDouglas DunnJeanette WintersonKingsley AmissPeter Ackroyd

Provenance

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