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I have decided to update the list of Booker prize winners to remove the deceased and bring it up to date. I am just about to embark on Wolf Hall. V S Naipaul (1932) John Berger (1926) Nadine Gordimer (1923) David Storey (1933) Salman Rushdie (1947) Thomas Keneally (1935) J M Coetzee (1940) Anita Brookner (1928) Keri Hume (1947) Penelope Lively (1933) Peter Carey (1943) Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) A S Byatt (1936) Ben Okri (1959) Michael Ondaatje (1943) Roddy Doyle (1958) James Kelman (1946) Pat Barker (1943) Graham Swift (1949) Arundhati Roy (1961) Ian McEwan (1948) Margaret Atwood (1939) Yann Martel (1963) DBC Pierre (1961) Alan Hollinghurst (1954) John Banville (1945) Kiran Desai (1971) Anne Enright (1962) Aravind Adiga (1974) Hilary Mantel (1952) Howard Jacobson (1942) Julian Barnes (1946)

On the bright side, he's probably immune to suicide inducing "banter" on Ask.fm

Do you have a source for that claim? regards, Hein Yes he does, but you don't want to see it or smell it. Give the little blighter some credit, though. That's more imaginative and provocative than a lot of trolling lately.

The big yin has had cancer surgery and also has early onset Parkinsons disease, well he did appear on the show many times http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24106842

Really sad to hear that news.Pauline Quirke R.I.P Oh for fox sake! Are you real or breaking your brain in for a fucking idiot?