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P. H. Newby
Something to Answer For
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| 1970 |
Bernice Rubens
The Elected Member
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| 1971 |
V. S. Naipul
In a Free State

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| 1972 |
John Berger
G 
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| 1973 |
J. G. Farrell
Siege of Krishnapur 
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| 1974 |
Stanley Middleton
Holiday
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Nadine Gordimer The Conversationalist

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| 1975 |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Heat and Dust |
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| 1976 |
David Storey
Saville
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| 1977 |
Paul Scott
Staying On
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| 1978 |
Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea  |
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| 1979 |
Penelope Fitzgerald
Offshore 
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| 1980 |
William Golding
Rites of Passage 
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| 1981 |
Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children 
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| 1982 |
Thomas Keneally
Schindler's Ark 
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| 1983 |
J. M. Coetzee
Life and Times of Michael K. 
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| 1984 |
Anita Brookner
Hotel Du Lac 
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| 1985 |
Keri Hulme
Bone People 
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| 1986 |
Kingsley Amis
The Old Devils 
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| 1987 |
Penelope Lively
Moon Tiger 
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| 1988 |
Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda 
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| 1989 |
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day 
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| 1990 |
A. S. Byatt
Possession 
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| 1991 |
Ben Okri
The Famished Road 
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| 1992 |
Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient  and Barry Unsworth
Sacred Hunger
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| 1993 |
Roddy Doyle
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 
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| 1994 |
James Kelman
How Little It Was, How Late 
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| 1995 |
Pat Barker
The Ghost Road 
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| 1996 |
Graham Swift
Last Orders 
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| 1997 |
Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things 
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| 1998 |
Ian McEwan
Amsterdam 
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| 1999 |
J.M. Coetzee
Disgrace 
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| 2000 |
Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin 
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| 2001 |
Peter Carey
True History of the Kelly Gang 
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