Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day
Faber & Faber
Controversy arose when Martin Amis's London Fields was excluded because of feminist objections from the two women judges, Maggie Gee and Helen McNeil, who were offended by the character of Nicola Six, a vampish, sexually reckless young woman who organises her own murder. The eventual winner, Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, was later turned into the Oscar-nominated film starring Anthony Hopkins.
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Shortlisted authors Margaret Atwood
John Banville Sybille Bedford |
Rose Tremain
Judges |
