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Podcast: Smart Talk
Episode: Three Booker Prizewinners on the Booker Ride
Description: Three Booker Prize winners, Eleanor Catton, Bernardine Evaristo and Shehan Karunatilaka share their experience of being awarded the world's most esteemed literary prize with Karyn Hay at the 2023 Auckland Writers Festival. Hear Eleanor Catton, Bernardine Evaristo, Shehan Karunatilaka and Karyn Hay in this highlight of the 2023 Auckland Writers FestivalIt's the Oscars of the writing world - winning the Booker Prize supercharges a writer's career, immediately lifts sales, multiplies overseas deals and opens up opportunities all around the world. But what does this kind of superstardom feel like for the writer on the inside? Three...