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Amsterdam received the 1998 Booker Prize.Announcing the award, Douglas Hurd, the former British Foreign Secretary who served as the chairman of the five-judge panel, called McEwan's novel "a sardonic and wise examination of the morals and culture of our time."
In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, for " The Best of the Booker ".
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He won the Booker Prize with Amsterdam (1998). His next novel, Atonement, garnered acclaim and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film featuring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. His later novels have included The Children Act, Nutshell, and Machines Like Me. He was awarded the 1999 Shakespeare Prize, and the 2011 Jerusalem Prize.
The Safekeep is the 2024 debut novel from Dutch author Yael van der Wouden.The novel, set in 1961 Netherlands, tells the story of Isabel (Isa), a recluse who is living alone and meticulously tending to the family home in Overijssel province.
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The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
Michele Hutchison (born 1972) is a British writer and translator, mainly of Dutch-language literature.She won the 2020 International Booker Prize for her translation of The Discomfort of Evening by Lucas Rijneveld, which according to the Booker website her "striking translation captures in all its wild, violent beauty."