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I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but the year that there were six extraordinary books on the shortlist.

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Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn’t.

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I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.

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May 25, 2024

I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.

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May 25, 2024

Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn’t.

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