The Booker Prizes | Get the plot right first: Iris Murdoch on writing fiction | The Booker Prize @TheBookerPrizes | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin and made her writing debut with 'Under the Net' in 1954. She wrote 26 novels, seven of which were nominated for a Booker Prize – including one winner, The Sea, the Sea in 1978.

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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.

Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.

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