Women Winners of the Booker
Prize
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P. H. Newby, 1969
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Bernice Rubens, 1970 (shortlisted in 1978)
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Nadine Gordimer, 1974
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 1975
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Iris Murdoch, 1978 (shortlisted in 1969, 1970, 1973, 1985, 1987)
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Penelope Fitzgerald, 1979 (shortlisted in 1978, 1988, 1990)
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Anita Brookner, 1984
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Keri Hulme, 1985
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Penelope Lively, 1987 (shortlisted in 1977, 1984)
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A. S. Byatt, 1990
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Pat Barker, 1995
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Arundhati Roy, 1997
Female authors whose works have
been shortlisted
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Margaret Atwood, 1986, 1989, 1996
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Beryl Bainbridge, 1973, 1974, 1990, 1996, 1998
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Nina Bawden, 1987
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Sybil Bedford, 1989
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Caroline Blackwood, 1977
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Elizabeth Bowen, 1970
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Anita Desai, 1980, 1984, 1999
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Alice Thomas Ellis, 1982
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Jennifer Johnston, 1977
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Jane Gardam, 1978
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Susan Hill, 1972
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Jennifer Johnston, 1977
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Molly Keane, 1981
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Doris Lessing, 1971, 1981, 1985
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Shena Mackay, 1996
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Anita Mason, 1983
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Elizabeth Mavor, 1973
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Jan Morris, 1985
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Alice Munro, 1980
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Julia O'Failain, 1980
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Barbara Pym, 1977
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Michele Roberts, 1992
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Anne Schlee, 1981
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Carol Shields, 1993
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Ahdaf Soueif, 1999
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Muriel Spark, 1969, 1981
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Madeleine St. John, 1997
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Elizabeth Taylor, 1971
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Rose Tremain, 1989
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Jill Paton Walsh, 1994
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Marina Warner, 1988
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Fay Weldon, 1979
Commentary on the
gender of authors.
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