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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."
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction.The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland.
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 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.
Yael Van der Wouden was born in 1987 [1] Tel Aviv, Israel, to an Israeli mother and a Dutch father, and grew up in the Netherlands. [2] She started ballet classes at the age of three, and competed in her school's talent show aged ten, with a dance interpreting a flame.
Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Kazuo Ishiguro Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan Booker Prize winner Anne Enright. Anne Enright (MA, 1987), 2007 Booker Prize winner for The Gathering; Kazuo Ishiguro (MA, 1980), 1989 Booker Prize winner for The Remains of the Day [8] Ian McEwan (MA, 1971), 1998 Booker Prize winner for Amsterdam