Bloomsbury Booker Award

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
8 November 2000

BLOOMSBURY AUTHOR WINS BOOKER PRIZE


London 8th November, 2000:  Bloomsbury Publishing Plc are the publishers of
this year's winner of the Booker Prize, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.
Bloomsbury publish the book in
the UK and most export markets in the English language.  The Booker Prize is
widely regarded as the most influential literary prize in the UK and the one
which has the greatest impact on sales.  This award underlines the continuing
success which Bloomsbury has had in publishing high quality fiction across a
wide range of genres.



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