James Kelman Wins The Booker Prize 1994 - Full Ceremony and Acceptance Speech | The Booker Prize

Watch the 1994 Booker Prize full ceremony, in which James Kelman wins the prize with 'How late it was, how late'.
The shortlist included 'Reef' by Romesh Gunesekera, 'Paradise' by Abdulrazak Gurnah, 'The Folding. Star' by Alan Hollinhgurst, 'Beside the Ocean of Time' by George Mackay Brown and 'Knowledge of Angels' by Jill Paton Walsh.
The 1994 judges were John Bayley, Julia Neuberger, Alastair Niven, Alan Taylor and James Wood.
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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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