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Award winner: Salman Rushdie, who won the Booker Prize for his first novel, Midnight's Children, is savoring the possibility that he may win again for his second book, Shame
Award winner: Salman Rushdie, who won the Booker Prize for his first novel, Midnight's Children, is savoring the possibility that he may win again for his second book, Shame

Award winner: Salman Rushdie, who won the Booker Prize for his first novel, Midnight's Children, is savoring the possibility that he may win again for his second book, Shame

Date10/17/1983
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Original Toronto Star caption: Award winner: Salman Rushdie, who won the Booker Prize for his first novel, Midnight's Children, is savoring the possibility that he may win again for his second book, Shame.
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Second win: Ruth E. Johnson placed second two weeks ago in The Great Toronto Romance but tried again and won this time. She has also written the first draft of a romance novel
Second win: Ruth E. Johnson placed second two weeks ago in The Great Toronto Romance but tried again and won this time. She has also written the first draft of a romance novel
3/5/1983
Second chance: After being overlooked for the Governor-General's Award, Richler is up for Britain's prestigious Booker prize for Solomon Gursky Was Here
Second chance: After being overlooked for the Governor-General's Award, Richler is up for Britain's prestigious Booker prize for Solomon Gursky Was Here
10/1/1990
Surprise visit: Salman Rushdie, right, is greeted by Ontario Premier Bob Rae at Pen writers' benefit at Winter Garden Theatre last night
Surprise visit: Salman Rushdie, right, is greeted by Ontario Premier Bob Rae at Pen writers' benefit at Winter Garden Theatre last night
12/7/1992
Salman (Entertainment) Rushdie
Salman (Entertainment) Rushdie
10/17/1983
Salman Rushdie stirs up controversy with The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie stirs up controversy with The Satanic Verses
10/19/1988
Salman Rushdie last year
Salman Rushdie last year
10/19/1988
New Career: London-based author Kazuo Ishiguro, whose third novel, The Remains Of The Day, has been nominated for the Booker prize, reads at Harbourfront tonight
New Career: London-based author Kazuo Ishiguro, whose third novel, The Remains Of The Day, has been nominated for the Booker prize, reads at Harbourfront tonight
10/1/1989
A book by its cover: Jacques Byfield's novel Forever 33 didn't win the Newmarket man the $50,000 top prize in Seal Book's first novel contest
A book by its cover: Jacques Byfield's novel Forever 33 didn't win the Newmarket man the $50,000 top prize in Seal Book's first novel contest
5/21/1982
Walking after midnight's Rae Dawn Chong, elegant interviewer at her own press conference
Walking after midnight's Rae Dawn Chong, elegant interviewer at her own press conference
9/10/1988
No let-up: Midnight's Oil's Peter Garrett tramped and goose-stepped from one end of the Concert Hall stage to the other, defending it as if it were the last bastion of sanity in this crazy world
No let-up: Midnight's Oil's Peter Garrett tramped and goose-stepped from one end of the Concert Hall stage to the other, defending it as if it were the last bastion of sanity in this crazy world
5/8/1988
Engineer wins our fifth prize, Twenty years ago, a San Francisco professor told Dan Mackie, this week's Sunday Star short story winner, that he could write if he just put his mind to it
Engineer wins our fifth prize, Twenty years ago, a San Francisco professor told Dan Mackie, this week's Sunday Star short story winner, that he could write if he just put his mind to it
11/3/1982
First V.C. winner, Lieut.-Col. Cecil C. I. Merritt, Vancouver, won the award for his bravery at Dieppe while leading the South Saskatchewan Regiment a(...)
First V.C. winner, Lieut.-Col. Cecil C. I. Merritt, Vancouver, won the award for his bravery at Dieppe while leading the South Saskatchewan Regiment a(...)
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