Watch the 1997 Booker Prize full ceremony, in which Arundhati Roy wins the prize with 'The God of Small Things'.

The shortlist included 'Quarantine' by Jim Crace, 'The Underground Man' by Mick Jackson, 'Grace Notes' by Bernard MacLaverty, 'Europa' by Tim Parks and 'The Essence of the Thing' by Madeleine St John.

The 1997 judges were Gillian Beer, Rachel Billington, Jason Cowley, Jan Dalley and Dan Jacobson.

Discover more about the Booker Prize 1997 here: https://thebookerprizes.com/thebooke...



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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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