Notes | The award ceremony was held on 16 Oct 1990. The shortlisted authors were: A. S. Byatt with the winning novel 'Possession', published by Chatto & Windus, Beryl Bainbridge with 'An Awfully Big Adventure', published by Duckworth, Penelope Fitzgerald with 'The Gate of Angels', published by Collins, John McGahern with 'Amongst Women', published by Faber & Faber, Brian Moore with 'Lies of Silence', published by Bloomsbury, and Mordecai Richler with 'Solomon Gursky Was Here', published by Chatto & Windus. The Judges were Sir Denis Forman (Chair), Susannah Clapp, A. Walton Litz, Hilary Mantel, and Kate Saunders. |