Thomas Keneally, Wins The Booker Prize 1982 - Full Ceremony and Acceptance Speech | The Booker Prize 

Watch the 1982 Booker Prize ceremony, in which Thomas Keneally wins with 'Schindler's Ark'.
The shortlist included 'Silence Among the Weapons' by John Arden, 'An Ice-Cream War' by William Boyd, 'Constance of Solitary Practices' by Lawrence Durrell, 'The 27th Kingdom' by Alice Thomas Ellis and 'Sour Sweet' by Timothy Mo.
The 1982 judges were John Carey, Paul Bailey, Frank Delaney, Janet Morgan and Lorna Sage.
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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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