Who has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize more times, Anita Desai or John Richardson?
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John Richardson (art historian) Sir John Patrick Richardson, KBE, FBA (born 6 February 1924) is a British art historian and Picasso biographer. Richardson has also worked as an industrial designer and as a reviewer for "The New Observer". In 1952, he moved to Provence, where he became friends with Picasso, Léger and de Staël. In 1960, he moved to New York and organized a nine-gallery Picasso retrospective. Christie's then appointed him to open their US office, which he ran for the next nine years. In 1973 he joined New York gallery M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., as vice president in charge of 19th- and 20th-century painting, and later became managing director of Artemis, a mutual fund specializing in works of art.
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Anita Desai Anita Desai (born 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times; she received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel "Fire on the Mountain", from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters; she won the British Guardian Prize for "The Village by the Sea".
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2016 Man Booker Prize The 2016 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 25 October 2016. The Man Booker dozen of 13 books was announced on 27 July, narrowed down to a shortlist of six titles on 13 September. Paul Beatty was awarded the 2016 Booker Prize for his novel "The Sellout", receiving 50,000 pounds ($61,000), and becoming the first American author to be awarded the prize.
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Man Booker International Prize The Man Booker International Prize is an international hosted in the United Kingdom. The introduction of the International Prize to complement the Man Booker Prize was announced in June 2004. Sponsored by the Man Group, from 2005 until 2015 the award was given every two years to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English translation. It rewarded one author's "continued creativity, development and overall contribution to fiction on the world stage", and was a recognition of the writer's body of work rather than any one title. The judges for the year compiled their own lists of authors, and submissions were not invited.
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Esther Richardson Esther Richardson (born 1974) is a British, stage, director and script editor. She directed an adaptation of Stephen Poliakoff's "Breaking the Silence", and more recently "A Pair of Pinters." She was recently appointed the artistic director of the Pilot Theatre.
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Joseph Richardson (British politician) Joseph Richardson (1830 – 25 September 1902) was a Liberal Party politician in England.
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Jennifer Kendal Jennifer Kapoor (née Kendal, 28 February 1933 – 7 September 1984) was an English actress and the founder of the Prithvi Theatre. She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the 1981 film "36 Chowringhee Lane". Her other film appearances included "Bombay Talkie" (1970), "Junoon" (1978), "Heat and Dust" (1983), and "Ghare Baire" (1984).
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Nina Bawden Nina Bawden CBE FRSL JP (19 January 1925 – 22 August 2012) was an English novelist and children's writer. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010. She is one of very few who have both served as a Booker judge and made the shortlist as an author.
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Phillip J. S. Richardson Phillip J.S. Richardson (full name: Phillip John Sampey Richardson) (1875–1963) was a British writer on dancing.
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Anita Rani Anita Rani Nazran (born 25 October 1977), better known as Anita Rani, is a British radio and television presenter of East Indian descent.
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Peter Carey (novelist) Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee and Hilary Mantel. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for "Oscar and Lucinda", and won for the second time in 2001 with "True History of the Kelly Gang". In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize.
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J. A. Baker John Alec Baker was an English author best known for "The Peregrine," which won the Duff Cooper Prize in 1967. Robert Macfarlane deemed it to be "a masterpiece of twentieth-century non-fiction" in his introduction to the New York Review Books edition of the book. On the back jacket cover of the same edition, James Dickey states that the book "transcends any 'nature writing' of our time," while Barry Lopez declares the book to be "one of the most beautifully written, carefully observed and evocative wildlife accounts I have ever read." Werner Herzog called it the "one book I would ask you to read if you want to make films," and said elsewhere "... it has prose of the caliber that we have not seen since Joseph Conrad."
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Norah Burke Norah (Aileen) Burke (2 August 1907 in Bedford, England – 1976 in Suffolk, England) was a well known novelist and non-fiction writer famous for her descriptions of life in India during the early 20th century.
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John Wainwright (author) John William Wainwright (25 February 1921 – September 1995), was a British crime novelist and author of 83 books, four of which have been published under the pen name Jack Ripley. He also wrote some short stories (mostly uncollected in book format), 7 radio plays, and an indefinite amount of magazine articles and newspaper columns.
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2015 Man Booker Prize The 2015 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 13 October 2015. A longlist of thirteen titles was announced on 29 July, narrowed down to a shortlist of six titles on 15 September.
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Ann Dummett Ann, Lady Dummett (born Agnes Margaret Ann Chesney; 4 September 1930 – 7 February 2012) was an English activist, campaigner for racial justice and published author.
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Patrick McCabe (novelist) Patrick McCabe (born 27 March 1955) is an Irish writer. Known for his mostly dark and violent novels set in contemporary—often small-town—Ireland, McCabe has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for "The Butcher Boy" and "Breakfast on Pluto", both of which have been made into films.
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Jagadish Mohanty Jagadish Mohanty (17 February 1951 – 29 December 2013) was a renowned Odia writer, considered as a trendsetter in modern Odia fiction, has received the prestigious Sarala Award in 2003, Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award in 1990, Dharitri Award in 1985, Jhankar Award, Prajatantra Award.
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John Richardson, Baron Richardson John Samuel Richardson, Baron Richardson, Bt. LVO FRCP (16 June 1910 – 15 August 2004) was a British physician, President of the General Medical Council, 1973–80, etc.
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Cilla McQueen Priscilla Muriel "Cilla" McQueen (born 22 January 1949 in Birmingham, England) is a poet and three-time winner of the "New Zealand Book Award" for Poetry.
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Richardson Award The Richardson Award, also known as the Evelyn Richardson Memorial Non-Fiction Award, is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, to the best work of adult non-fiction published in the previous year by a writer from Nova Scotia. It is the oldest literary award in the region and is considered the most prestigious for a work of non-fiction. The award was named to honour Evelyn M. Richardson.
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Jhumpa Lahiri Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri (Bengali: ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী ; born on July 11, 1967) is an American author. Lahiri has been selected as the winner of the 29th PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short story. Lahiri's debut short story collection "Interpreter of Maladies" (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, "The Namesake" (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna but goes by her nickname Jhumpa. Lahiri was a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama. (She resigned from the President's Committee in August, 2017, co-signing a letter of resignation that said in reference to President Trump, "Ignoring your hateful rhetoric would have made us complicit in your words and actions.") Her book "The Lowland", published in 2013, was a nominee for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction. Lahiri is currently a professor of creative writing at Princeton University.