The Booker Prizes | Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on the power of fiction | The Booker Prize @TheBookerPrizes | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
In a keynote speech at the #BookerPrize2023 ceremony, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe revealed how a secret library provided ‘refuge in the world of others’ during her detainment in Iran.⁠

Find a full transcript of the speech here: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-booker-prize-keynote-speech-2023

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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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