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Deborah Levy
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Ottessa Moshfegh
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Madeleine Thien
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Paul Beatty
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Detailed explanation-1: -Paul Beatty was awarded the 2016 Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout, receiving 50, 000 pounds ($61, 000), and becoming the first American author to be awarded the prize.
Detailed explanation-2: -PH Newby was the first winner of the prize in 1969 with Something to Answer For. From 2002 the prize became The Man Booker Prize when the Man Group plc came on board as sponsor, making Yann Martel the first winner of The Man Booker Prize with Life of Pi.
Detailed explanation-3: -Arundhati Roy became the first Indian citizen to win the Booker Prize. ‘God of Small Things’ book won her a booker prize in 1997. Booker prize is awarded each year for the best novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
Detailed explanation-4: -Who are the Booker Prize winners from India? Booker Prize Winners from India include V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Rohinton Mistry, Kiran Desai, Indra Sinha, Arvind Adiga, Amitav Ghosh, and Jeet Thayil. In total, 10 Indian people have won the Booker Prize over the years.