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BP - Papers of the Booker Literary Prizes - 1968-2019
1 - Booker Prize papers - 1968-2019
Level
SubSeries
Doc Ref
BP/1/10
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BP/1/10
Box Ref No.
1978 (boxes 1-2)
Extent
2 boxes
Title
1978 prize papers
Date
1977-1978
Notes
The award ceremony was held on 22 November 1978.
The shortlisted authors were:
Iris Murdoch with the winning novel 'The Sea, the Sea', published by Chatto & Windus,
Kingsley Amis with 'Jake's Thing', published by Hutchinson,
André Brink with 'Rumours of Rain', published by W. H. Allen,
Penelope Fitzgerald with 'The Bookshop', published by Duckworth,
Jane Gardam with 'God on the Rocks', published by Hamish Hamilton, and
Bernice Rubens with 'A Five-Year Sentence', published by W. H. Allen.
The Judges were Sir Alfred Ayer (Chair), Clare Boylan, Angela Huth, Derwent May, and P. H. Newby.
Arrangement
Arranged into subseries of different record types
Access status
Open
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