J.M. Coetzee
Disgrace
Secker & Warburg
J.M. Coetzee became the first writer to win the Booker Prize twice - with Life & Times of Michael K (1983) and Disgrace (1999). Coetzee described it as the ‘ultimate prize to win in the English-speaking world’. Unable to attend the ceremony, his prepared speech said, ‘If I do win it’s only because the stars this October 25th are in a lucky conjunction for me.’
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Shortlisted authors
Anita Desai
Michael Frayn
Andrew O’Hagan
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Ahdaf Soueif
Colm Tóibín
Judges
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