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1991 prize papers

Catalogue reference: BP/1/23

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This record is about the 1991 prize papers dating from 1989-1992.

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BP/1/23
Title
1991 prize papers
Date
1989-1992
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Oxford Brookes University: Special Collections
Physical description
10 boxes
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Administrative / biographical background

The award ceremony was held on 22 Oct 1991.The shortlisted authors were:Ben Okri with the winning novel 'The Famished Road', published by Cape,Martin Amis with 'Time's Arrow', published by Cape,Roddy Doyle with 'The Van', published by Secker & Warburg,Rohinton Mistry with 'Such a Long Journey', published by Faber & Faber,Timothy Mo with 'The Redundancy of Courage', published by Chatto & Windus, andWilliam Trevor with 'Reading Turgenev' (from 'Two Lives'), published by Viking.The Judges were Jeremy Treglown (Chair), Penelope Fitzgerald, Jonathan Keates, Nicholas Mosley, and Ann Schlee.

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BP/1

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1991 prize papers