J. M. Coetzee Wins The Booker Prize 1983 - Full Ceremony and Acceptance Speech | The Booker Prize

Watch the 1983 Booker Prize ceremony, in which J. M. Coetzee wins with 'Life & Times of Michael K'. The shortlist included 'Rates of Exchange' by Malcolm Bradbury, 'Flying to Nowhere' by John Fuller, 'The Illusionist' by Anita Mason, 'Shame' by Salman Rushdie and 'Waterland' by Graham Swift. The 1983 judges were Fay Weldon, Angela Carter, Terence Kilmartin, Peter Porter and Libby Purves. Discover more about the Booker Prize 1983: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booke... --- The Booker Prizes on TikTok: tiktok.com/@thebookerprizes The Booker Prizes on Twitter: twitter.com/TheBookerPrizes The Booker Prizes on Facebook: facebook.com/TheBookerPrizes The Booker Prizes on Instagram: instagram.com/thebookerprizes The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more. #TheBookerPrizes #Books