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Michael Ondaatje, the author of The English Patient & Booker Prize winner, thanked “small presses everywhere” because in Canada it was only the indie presses who published his work. https://bit.ly/2KY91ZO
#books#authors#ManBooker50#indiepublisherspic.twitter.com/SEjoZEElqa
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Congratulations to Michael Ondaatje who wins the Golden Man Booker at
#ManBooker50 for The English Patient. pic.twitter.com/BRrJg8PRPl
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Michael Ondaatje won the Golden Man Booker and we were happy tonight
#ManBooker50 @kamilashamsie @BloomsburyBooks @southbankcentre @ManBookerPrizepic.twitter.com/tpNYsyqr26
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We are so extremely proud and excited that Michael Ondaatje, and his incredible work THE ENGLISH PATIENT, has been recognized as the best work of fiction of the last 50 years, and awarded the Golden Man Booker Prize
#ManBooker50 https://goo.gl/pfQ6Me pic.twitter.com/KQmOKN6SpP
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The shortlist for the
#ManBooker50 one-off prize, The Golden Man Booker, has arrived. Who should win? Well, that's up to you. More about the books and how to vote here: https://www.waterstones.com/category/cultural-highlights/book-awards/the-golden-man-booker?utm_source=WS_GoldenManBookerPrize&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=may2018twitter …pic.twitter.com/vyKuopGp6B
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And here's the winner... All hail Michael Ondaatje and The English Patient!


#ManBooker50#FinestFictionpic.twitter.com/ZmecYhlYA2
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What a great
@ManBookerPrize year it’s been.#ManBooker2018 has to be one of my favourites, a broad and challenging#Longlist & sharp, complex & entertaining#shortlist. Plus the Golden Man Booker#ManBooker50 and great ManBooker International books.#FinestFiction indeed 2018!pic.twitter.com/00tXSZUcuf
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Cam and I had the best weekend at the
#ManBooker50 Festival at the Southbank Centre. (My first ever) vlog will be coming this week!
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J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K came alive at
@edbookfest. We made this film there and you can see the full show at@WigtownBookFest,@cheltfestivals and@WritersCentre this autumn. https://youtu.be/SX0EwgWAP8Y#manbooker50 pic.twitter.com/UmJxcji9Hu -
"Hopeless hope" is the kind of courage
#KazuoIshiguro writes about in his books. Perfectly illustrated in "Never Let Me Go"#ManBooker50@southbankcentrepic.twitter.com/NKWCTyw4e3
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To celebrate
#ManBooker50 we're giving away a whole host of prizes in honour of our two prizewinners#ABriefHistoryofSevenKillings and#TheSellout! 1st prize wins a signed hardback of A Brief History..., a copy of The Sellout with pink sprayed edges, a signed poster and a mug
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What a great evening! In conversation with authors AM Homes and Jeanette Winterson. Super to hear these two amazing women talk about their work, the process of writing and the state of the world. All part of
#ManBooker50 at The Southbank. More good stuff to come! Check it out. pic.twitter.com/vqy56Vbq4I
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I keep finding more and more in these words from George Saunders delivered (by video) at finale of
#ManBooker50@southbankcentre last night.pic.twitter.com/JAg2zQq9NX
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‘I’m not a probation officer to the dead - I just want to see justice done.’ Hilary Mantel wows the audience at
#ManBooker50 talking about the elusive Thomas Cromwell in Bring Up The Bodies. Tune in 4 August @bbcworldservice.pic.twitter.com/Jg27Znmgva
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"I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead." Michael Ondaatje's 'The English Patient' is named the greatest-ever winner of the Man Booker Prize at an event celebrating five decades of the prestigious literary award.
#ManBooker50 pic.twitter.com/13PyVwDbo6
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The reception at Buckingham Palace tonight marks the start of a weekend of celebrations for the
@ManBookerPrize, which turns 50 this year.#ManBooker50 pic.twitter.com/KCtyyfcDz6
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We're celebrating 50 years of the
@ManBookerPrize this week with a big selection of winning titles from the past five decades. Are any of these on your to be read list? Which ones are your favourites?#ManBooker50 pic.twitter.com/xbc2eta8gs
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Incensed by what I experienced at the
#ManBooker50 Festival I've written a few words on why I'm finally, utterly and completely, done with the prize: https://bit.ly/2zxRnYK -
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker Prize, one previous winner from each decade has been chosen to compete for the
#GoldenManBooker. The winner will announced this Thursday and we have them all along with many of the other previous winners.#ManBooker50 pic.twitter.com/5aSwy3PMrl
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