The Booker Prizes | Muriel Spark on poetry, autobiography and eternal life | The Booker Prize @TheBookerPrizes | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981, Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark is an expertly crafted novel on art and artifice, one which delicately explores the ethical demands and constraints of authorship. In archive clips, we discover the novel through Spark's own words, as well as learning more about her poetic vision and where she found inspiration for her writing

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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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