Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
Flamingo
The God of Small Things was the first novel from the Indian writer Arundhati Roy. Gillian Beer, Professor of English Literature at Cambridge and the chair of the judges, said the book was written with ‘extraordinary linguistic inventiveness.'
Shortlisted authors
Jim Crace
Mick Jackson
Bernard MacLaverty
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Tim Parks
Madeleine St John
Judges |