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Booker Prize - 2007


The Man Booker Prize is the UK's annual celebration of the finest in fiction. The shortlist for 2007 was announced in September and the winner - Anne Enright - was announced at an awards ceremony at the Guildhall, London on Tuesday 16th October.

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Winner - Booker Prize, 2007


The 2007 winner of the Booker Prize concerns the dark history across three generations of an Irish family. The funeral - or "Gathering" of the book's title - causes the narrator to explore her family's secrets as she tries to come to terms with the death of her brother.

The Gathering
by: Anne Enright

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by: Anne Enright

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Shortlist - Booker Prize, 2007


Darkmans
by Nicola Barker

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Animal's People
by Indra Sinha

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The Reluctant
Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid

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Mister Pip
by Lloyd Jones

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On Chesil Beach
by Ian McEwan

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Previous Winners of the Booker


The Inheritance of Loss
Winner - 2006
by Kiran Desai

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The Sea
Winner - 2005
by John Banville

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The Line of Beauty
Winner - 2004
by Alan Hollinghurst

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Vernon God Little
Winner - 2003
by DBC Pierre

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Life of Pi
Winner - 2002
by Yann Martel

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True History of the Kelly Gang
Winner - 2001
by Peter Carey

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The Blind Assassin
Winner - 2000
by Margaret Atwood

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Disgrace
Winner - 1999
by J.M. Coetzee

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Amsterdam
Winner - 1998
by Ian McEwan

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The God Of Small Things
Winner - 1997
by Arundhati Roy

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