Oxford DNB celebrates Booker winners past and present

Prestigious dictionary of biographies highlights Booker history

21 October 2008

The Oxford DNB (Dictionary of National Biography) has celebrated the Booker Prize's 40th anniversary by dedicating a section in its online edition to the prize's past winners and contenders.

The Oxford DNB is a collection of more than 56,600 specially written biographies, which describe the lives of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond. It replaces and extends the Victorian DNB, and now contains biographies of lives from the 4th century BC to the year 2004.  

Entries can range from a few dozen to 35,000 words in length and are accompanied by portraits enabled by a partnership with the National Portrait Gallery in London.

The Oxford DNB's 'Booker Prize at 40' section has a list of past winners which link to entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (for those authors who died in or before 2004) and Who's Who / Who Was Who for living authors and those who have died since 2004.

Further Oxford DNB entries of well-known writers who have been shortlisted for the prize are also linked.

 

 

 

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