Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin
Bloomsbury
Robert MacFarlane wrote in The Observer two days before the winner announcement, ‘Ideally, the Booker Prize would be run like a criminal trial. Past offences (or past novels) would not be taken into account, and justice would be administered only according to the available evidence (the books in question).’ Margaret Atwood won this year for her novel The Blind Assassin, having been shortlisted for the prize three times before.
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Shortlisted authors
Trezza Azzopardi
Michael Collins
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Matthew Kneale
Brian O’Doherty
Judges |
