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Booker Prize for Fiction

Literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom.

Winner

Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

Shortlist

A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
Call Number: Fiction N157b (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780394505732
Publication Date: 1979-05-12
After a recent civil war, a country in the interior of Africa is under a new President, whose insane energy and crudity have made his power felt everywhere including an isolated village at a bend in the river.

Booker Prize for Fiction

Winner

Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

Shortlist

Longlist