In Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha set in Ireland in the 1960s, the titular protagonist watches the show and mentions Napoleon Solo at several points in the novel.

Battersea is also the setting for Penelope Fitzgerald's 1979 Booker Prize-winning novel, Offshore.

Hwang wrote an early draft of a screenplay based upon A. S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel Possession, which was originally scheduled for director Sydney Pollack.

* In Howard Jacobson's 2010 Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The Finkler Question, the bereaved widower Libor Sevcik commits suicide by jumping off the cliff at Beachy Head.

* May 7-Peter Carey, Booker Prize-winning novelist

* May 8-Pat Barker, Booker Prize-winning novelist

Bernice Rubens ( 26 July 1928 – 13 October 2004 ) was a Booker Prize-winning Welsh novelist.

It is also the basis for the title of the Booker Prize-winning novel by Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea.

Schindler's Ark ( released in America as Schindlers List ) is a Booker Prize-winning novel published in 1982 by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally, which was later adapted into the highly successful movie Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg.

The novel has also directly influenced a number of other critically acclaimed books, including British author Graham Swift's 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel Last Orders and Suzan-Lori Parks's Getting Mother's Body: A Novel, which is a reimagining of Faulkner's novel from an African American point of view.

* Booker Prize-winning novelist James Gordon Farrell was evacuated to Birkdale during WW2.

Writers who have studied there include the Booker Prize-winning Anita Brookner, the novelist Iain Sinclair, and the travel writer Michael Jacobs.

Yann Martel named a character in his Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi ( 2001 ) after Poe's fictional character, Richard Parker.

The Bone People ( styled by the author and in some editions as the bone people ) is a Booker Prize-winning 1984 novel by New Zealand author Keri Hulme.

* Lord Jim is the name of a boat, and subsequently the nickname of the boat's owner, Richard Blake, in Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel Offshore.

Among Howth's better known residents are Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville, U2 drummer Larry Mullen, Senator and retail pioneer Feargal Quinn and musicians Barney McKenna ( up until his passing April 5, 2012 ) and John Sheahan of The Dubliners and Dolores O ' Riordan of The Cranberries.

* 11 October-Anne Enright, Booker Prize-winning author.

Originally a gold mining township of over 1, 500 people, it is now permanent home to only about 30 residents-among them Booker Prize-winning writer Keri Hulme, landscape photographer Andris Apse.

This script, when sent to that interface, will iterate over the entire list of books maintained by the framework, and pick out those written by Booker Prize-winning authors.

Man Booker Prize-winning author Howard Jacobson was born and raised in Prestwich.

Shaukat ( Sanjay Dutt ) is a Booker Prize-winning writer, whose latest work has been criticised by one and all for being too surreal for anyone's liking.

Vizard interviewed more than 1000 guests, including Academy Award-winning directors Peter Weir and Tom Hooper, director of The Kings Speech, authors Jeffrey Archer, Booker Prize-winning Tom Kenneally, Jackie Collins, Peter Carey, Tim Flannery, Grammy-nominated musicians Faith Hill, Tim Mcgraw, Josh Groban, Chris Botti, George Benson, President of the World Bank James Wolfensohn, Martin Short, Christopher Hitchens, Weird Al Yankovic, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Professor Ross Garnaut.

In a review of Howard Jacobson's 2010 Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Finkler Question, Edward Alexander writes, " the novel ’ s Holocaust-denying Israeli yored drummer is in fact based upon one Gilad Atzmon, who is better known in England for endorsing the ideology of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and describing the burning of British synagogues as a ' rational act ' in retaliation for Israeli actions.

* Last Orders, a 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel by Graham Swift

* The 2011 novel " The Stranger's Child " by Booker prize winning British novelist Alan Hollinghurst features fictional War Poet Cecil Valance who shares characteristics of, though is not as talented as, Brooke.

* Penelope Lively, CBE, FRSL – novelist and Booker Prize winner for Moon Tiger

Julian Barnes ( 1946 -) is another successful living novelist, who won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of an Ending, while three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize winning novelist in a May 7, 2012 article in Newsweek Hilary Mantel's favorite historical Fictions, lists Things Fall Apart as one of her five favorite novels in this genre.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE ( born 7 May 1927 ) is a Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter.

The Blackwater Lightship is a 1999 novel written by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín, and was short-listed for the Booker Prize.

Australian novelist Peter Carey won the 2001 Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize the same year for the True History of the Kelly Gang.

By 1956 he rented the top-floor flat at 10, Compayne Gardens, Hampstead, the house of Bernice Rubens, who later won the Booker Prize, and her husband Rudolph Nassauer, also a published novelist, later.

* P. H. Newby ( 1918 – 1997 ), English novelist, winner of the first Booker Prize.

In late 1957, now separated and living with Dilys Johnson ( whom he later married ), he rented a room in a flat at 10 Compayne Gardens, London NW3, that was rented, in turn, by the poet Jon Silkin from Rudolf Nassauer ( a wine merchant, poet, and novelist ) and his wife, Bernice Rubens, who was later winner of the 1970 Booker Prize.

In international literature, Kazuo Ishiguro, a native of Japan, had taken up residence in Britain and won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize.

* Booker Prize: Kazuo Ishiguro-The Remains of the Day

Cóetzee, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, Booker Prize winners Kazuo Ishiguro, John Banville, James Kelman and Anne Enright.

* Mr. Stevens, the protagonist of Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize winning novel, The Remains of the Day and movie of the same name.

It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize ( an award Ishiguro had previously won in 1989 for The Remains of the Day ), for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Christopher Booker and Richard North wrote an article for the Daily Telegraph in January 2010 alleging potential conflicts of interest related to Pachauri's membership of the board of ONGC and to research grants for TERI, a non-profit institution of which Pachauri is director general.

) Reporting upon Roth's reception of the 2011 Man Booker International Prize, critic Jonathan Derbyshire of the New Statesman wrote, " The judging panel make the inevitable reference in their summing-up to Roth's extraordinary fecundity over the past 15 years or so, at a stage in his life when ' most novelists are in decline '.

Bob Altshuler wrote the sleeve notes on the first Booker T. & The M. G.

The awarding of the Booker Prize caused some controversy at the time: as this award is for the best fiction, it was debatable whether Keneally wrote fiction or was reporting history.

Its principal, James Weldon Johnson, wrote the words to introduce its honored guest Booker T. Washington.

In Science Fiction Television ( 2004 ), M. Keith Booker wrote:

One of the earliest and most frequently cited is that of Booker T. Washington, who wrote, in his 1901 autobiography, Up from Slavery:

Levert wrote and produced songs for other artists such as Barry White, Stephanie Mills, Anita Baker, Eugene Wilde, Teddy Pendergrass, James Ingram, Freddie Jackson, Chuckii Booker, The Winans, Troop and The O ' Jays.

After researching the history of Stax for 10 years, Canadian Grammy award-winning musicology professor Rob Bowman wrote in Soulsville U. S. A .: The Story of Stax Records that four years after the last Booker T. & the MGs album, 1971's Melting Pot, the group got together and decided to wrap up all of their individual productions and devote three years to a reunion of the band.

In his book Drawn to Television – Prime-time Animation from the Flintstones to Family Guy, Keith Booker wrote: " The episode details in a rather sentimental fashion the early struggles of the irresponsible Homer to support his new family [...] Such background episodes add an extra dimension to the portrayal of the animated Simpson family, making them seem oddly real and adding weight to their status as a family with a long history together.

On October 16, 1894, Collier and John Randolph Lewis wrote to Booker T. Washington making him the Chief Commissioner of the State of Alabama for the Exposition and charging him with creating an exhibit show casing the talents of African-Americans in Alabama.

In his book Drawn to Television – Prime-time Animation from the Flintstones to Family Guy, Keith Booker wrote: " The episode details in a rather sentimental fashion the early struggles of the irresponsible Homer to support his new family [...] Such background episodes add an extra dimension to the portrayal of the animated Simpson family, making them seem oddly real and adding weight to their status as a family with a long history together.

During World War II, Beecher volunteered and served as a commissioned officer of the interracial crew of the troop transport Booker T. Washington and wrote a book about these experiences, All Brave Sailors.