John Berger
G
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
John Berger announced he would give half his prize money for his novel G to the Black Panther movement in protest at what he alleged was Booker’s colonialist policy in the West Indies. In fact Booker had had its sugar plantations and refineries confiscated ten years previously – and the Black Panther movement had dissolved two years before.
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Shortlisted authors
Susan Hill
Thomas Keneally
David Storey Judges
Cyril Connolly (Chair) |
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