Watch the 1989 Booker Prize ceremony, in which Kazuo Ishiguro wins with 'The Remains of the Day'.

The shortlist included 'Cat's Eye' by Margaret Atwood, 'The Book of Evidence' by John Banville, 'Jigsaw' by Sybille Bedford, 'A Disaffection' by James Kelman and 'Restoration' by Rose Tremain.

The 1989 judges were David Lodge, Maggie Gee, Helen McNeil, David Profumo and Edmund White.

Discover more about the Booker Prize 1989 here: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booke...

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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.

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