Re: Booker Prize
TERRY L. TAYLOR, CO-EDITOR H-ALBION (TAYLORT@ALPHA.NSULA.EDU)
Thu, 27 Jul 1995 09:47:35 -0600
The Booker McConnell Prize for Fiction was founded in 1969,financed by
Booker McConnell, a multinational conglomerate company. Its awarded to
the best full-length novel published in the previous 12 months. Winners
have been P.H. Newby, Bernice Rubens, V.S. Naipaul, J. Berger, J.G. Farrell,
N. Gordimer and Stanley Middleton(joint winners),R.P. Jhabvala, D. Storey,
P. Scott, Iris Murdoch, Penelope Fitzgerald, W. Golding, Salmon Rushdie,
Thomas Keneally, Anita Brookner.This information is from The Oxford Companion
to English Literature ed. by Margaret Drabble(5th ed)published by Oxford U.
Press in 1985 and appears to take you through the 1983 winner, though dates
aren't given, nor titles. I know that Fitzgerald's winner was "Offshore"and
won in 1979 and Jhabvala's was "Heat and Dust"(published 1975,so presumably
winner that year). Good luck!
Anne Rush
American University
AS7407A@american.edu