Keri Hulme
The Bone People
Hodder & Stoughton
The Bone People was Keri Hulme's first and only novel. One review described it as ‘a disaster’. The first British print-run of the book was 1,500 copies, but having won the prize, the book went on to sell 34,000 copies in hardback. Joanna Lumley, one of the judges, said of her experience: ‘The so-called bitchy world of acting was a Brownie’s tea party compared with the piranha-infested waters of publishing.’
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Shortlisted authors
Peter Carey
J.L. Carr
Doris Lessing
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Jan Morris
Iris Murdoch Judges
Norman St John-Stevas (Chair) |
