"In Siberia" is a travel book that was selected as one of the books of the year by a trio of people including a British novelist born in what year?
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In Siberia In Siberia is a 1999 travel book by the English writer Colin Thubron. Published in 1999, the book depicts Thubron's journeys in Siberia in the late 1990s, after the fall of communism. The book is the last of what is regarded as Thubron's "Russia trilogy", comprising "Among the Russians" (1981), "The Lost Heart of Asia" (1994) and "In Siberia" (1999). The book was widely praised by critics. Jan Morris, Kazuo Ishiguro and Anthony Sattin selected it as one of their books of the year.
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Kazuo Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, FRSA, FRSL (Japanese: カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄 ; born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980.
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Andrew Brown (writer) Andrew Brown (born 1955 in London) is a British journalist, writer, and editor. He was one of the founding staff members of "The Independent", where he worked as religious correspondent, parliamentary sketch writer, and a feature writer. He has written extensively on technology for "Prospect" and the "New Statesman" and been a feature writer on the Guardian. He has worked as the editor for the "Belief" section of The Guardian's Comment is Free which won a Webby under his leadership and is currently a leader writer and member of the paper's editorial board. He is also the press columnist of the "Church Times". "In The Beginning was the Worm" (2004) was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize. "Fishing in Utopia" (2008) won the Orwell Prize and was nominated for the Dolman Best Travel Book Award in 2009.
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Jacqueline Briskin Jacqueline Briskin, née Orgell (18 December 1927 – 24 December 2014) was a British-born American writer specializing in historical fiction from 1970 to 1995. Her books regularly appear on the "New York Times" bestseller's list. She was a main Selection of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club seven times, her novels were translated into 26 languages, and has sold 23,000,000 copies worldwide.
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Gabriel Fielding Gabriel Fielding (25 March 1916, Hexham, Northumberland, England – 27 November 1986, Bellevue, Washington), pen name of Alan Gabriel Barnsley, was a British novelist whose works include: "In the Time of Greenbloom", "The Birthday King", "Through Streets Broad and Narrow" and "The Women of Guinea Lane".
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Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( ; Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков , ] , also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; (April 22nd, 1899 — July 2nd, 1977) was a Russian-American novelist and entomologist. His first nine novels were in Russian, but he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose.
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Daisy Waugh Daisy Louisa Dominica Waugh (born 19 February 1967), known as Daisy Waugh, she is a novelist, journalist and tarot reader.
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Hilary McKay Hilary McKay (born 12 June 1959) is a British writer of children's books. For her first novel, "The Exiles", she won the 1992 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.
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Thomas Hinde (novelist) Sir Thomas Willes Chitty, 3rd Baronet (2 March 1926 – 7 March 2014), better known by his pen name Thomas Hinde, was a British novelist.
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Nikolai Tolstoy Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Tolstoy-Miloslavsky (Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Толстой-Милославский ; born 23 June 1935) is an Anglo-Russian author who writes under the name Nikolai Tolstoy. A member of the Tolstoy family, he is a former parliamentary candidate of the UK Independence Party.
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Peter Bently Peter Bently (born 1960) is a British children’s writer. He is best known for his rhyming picture books including "The Great Dog Bottom Swap" (with Mei Matsuoka), "Meet the Parents" (with Sara Ogilvie) and "The Shark in the Dark" (with Ben Cort). "Cats Ahoy!", his first picture book with Jim Field, won the "Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011" and "King Jack and the Dragon" (with Helen Oxenbury) was named as an American Library Association Notable Book of the year.
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Saumya Balsari Saumya Balsari is a British Indian author. Balsari has been named one of Britain's leading South Asian women by redhotcurry.com. She is currently researching her third novel as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Cambridge, Centre of Latin American Studies. Her second book was "Summer of Blue", a novel for young adults. It was published in 2013 as an ebook (Arcadia Books) and paperback. Her first novel, "The Cambridge Curry Club", is the 2010 winner of the first ever Cambridgeshire Book of the Decade.  The book was selected at Cambridge Wordfest 2012 by Oxygen Books, City Picks, for a public reading of Cambridge's finest writing.Cambridge Wordfest 2012 The title was also chosen for The National Year of Reading and by BBC Radio Cambridgeshire for its 2008 A Book a Day project in May. Balsari's writing has been favourably compared by Alexander McCall Smith to that of Booker Prize Winners Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai. Other eminent reviewers of her work include the well-known actress and author Meera Syal and television comedy writer Ronald Wolfe (Writing Comedy).
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Smiley's People Smiley's People is a spy novel by John le Carré, published in 1979. Featuring British master-spy George Smiley, it is the third and final novel of the "Karla Trilogy", following "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "The Honourable Schoolboy". George Smiley is called out of retirement to investigate the death of one of his old agents: a former Soviet general, the head of an Estonian émigré organisation based in London. Smiley learns the general had discovered information that will lead to a final confrontation with Smiley's nemesis, the Soviet spymaster Karla.
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Tim Severin Tim Severin (born 25 Sept 1940) is a British explorer, historian and writer. Severin is noted for his work in retracing the legendary journeys of historical figures. Severin was awarded both the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society and the Livingstone Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. He received the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for his 1982 book "The Sindbad Voyage".
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Alexander Stuart (writer) Alexander Stuart is a British-born, Los Angeles-based novelist and screenwriter. Stuart's books include "The War Zone", "Tribes", "Life On Mars" (which inspired the British television documentary, "The End of America"), "Five And A Half Times Three" (written with Ann Totterdell, about the death from cancer of their five-and-a-half-year-old son, Joe Buffalo Stuart), and the children's books, "Joe, Jo-Jo And The Monkey Masks" and "Henry And The Sea" (written with Joe Buffalo Stuart). Stuart's books have been translated into eight languages and published in the United States, Britain, Europe, and Israel.
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The Child in Time The Child in Time (1987) is a novel by Ian McEwan. It won the Whitbread Novel Award for that year. The story concerns Stephen, an author of children's books, and his wife, two years after the kidnapping of their three-year-old daughter Kate. Author Christopher Hitchens viewed the novel as McEwan's masterpiece.
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A. S. Byatt Dame Antonia Susan Duffy {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ("née" Drabble; born 24 August 1936), known professionally as A. S. Byatt ( ), is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner. In 2008, "The Times" newspaper named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
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Sam Thompson (writer) Sam Thompson (born in 1978) is a British novelist.
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Reay Tannahill Reay Tannahill (9 December 1929 – 2 November 2007) was a British historian, non-fiction writer, and novelist, best known perhaps for two non-fiction bestsellers: "Food in History" and "Sex in History". She also wrote under the pseudonym Annabel Laine. Her novel "Passing Glory" won in 1990 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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Rosalind Belben Rosalind Belben is an English novelist. She was born in 1941 in Dorset where she now lives, in Bere Regis. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her novel "Our Horses in Egypt" won the James Tait Black Award in 2007. Among her other books are "Bogies", "Reuben Little Hero", "The Limit", "Dreaming of Dead People", and "Hound Music".
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ( ; Russian: Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын , ] ; 11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) (often Romanized to Alexandr or Alexander) was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and communism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. He was allowed to publish only one work in the Soviet Union, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" (1962), in the periodical "Novy Mir". After this he had to publish in the West, most notably "Cancer Ward" (1968), "August 1914" (1971), and "The Gulag Archipelago" (1973). Solzhenitsyn was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". Solzhenitsyn was afraid to go to Stockholm to receive his award for fear that he would not be allowed to reenter. He was eventually expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974, but returned to Russia in 1994 after the state's dissolution.
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Somerset Maugham Award The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors. It is awarded to the best writer or writers of a book published in the past year who is under the age of 35. The prize was instituted in 1947 by William Somerset Maugham and thus bears his name. The award is to be spent on foreign travel. The total fund for each year is £12,000.