J. M. Coetzee
Life & Times of Michael K
Secker & Warburg
Chair Fay Weldon, put in the difficult position of having to choose between J. M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K and Salman Rushdie’s Shame, told Martyn Goff (the prize’s administrator) that she never made decisions at home, ‘My husband makes them all.’
Shortlisted authors
Malcolm Bradbury John Fuller
Anita Mason
Salman Rushdie |
Graham Swift Judges
Fay Weldon (Chair) |