Jeanette Winterson wrote her first novel Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit at age 23.
Duong Thu Huong's work, including No Man's Land, have been translated into more than ten languages.
Toni Morrison received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Her novel Beloved won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988.
Zadie Smith's On Beauty was nominated for a Booker Prize
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