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Also Known As Penelope Margaret Low • Dame Penelope Margaret Lively
Born March 17, 1933 (age 91) • Cairo • Egypt
Awards And Honors National Book Award • Booker Prize (1987) • Costa Book Awards (1976)
Notable Works “Astercote” • “City of the Mind” • “Family Album” • “Life in the Garden” • “Making It Up” • “Passing On” • “The Photograph” • “The Purple Swamp Hen, and Other Stories” • “The Road to Lichfield” • “Treasures of Time”
Salman Rushdie, 2008
Salman Rushdie
British-American writer
Rumer Godden
British writer
George MacDonald Fraser
British writer
Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain
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Jeanette Winterson
British author
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro
Japanese-British author
Martin Amis
Martin Amis
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Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes
British author and critic
Joan Aiken.
Joan Aiken
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Walter Allen
British writer
Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel
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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
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V.S. Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul
Trinidadian-British writer
Alan Garner
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A.S. Byatt
British scholar, literary critic, and novelist
P.D. James
British novelist
Plomer
William Plomer
South African writer
Frederick Forsyth
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Nicholas Mosley
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V.S. Pritchett
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