The Washington Post, October 17th, 1990
Writer A.S. Byatt won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize yesterday for her fifth novel, "Possession: A Romance," a tour de force of literary mystery and invention. The Booker, which in its 21 years has become Britain's most coveted literary award, has proved to be a bankable honor, with sales of the winning book registering a marked uptick after the prize is announced. Some of that magic rubbed off on Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day" on this side of the Atlantic, too, when it won the Booker last year. The $40,000 prize was announced at a banquet last night in London's Guildhall, and c...
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