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2009 FT/GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOOK AWARD
The winner
Liaquat Ahamed’s ‘Lords of Finance’ swept away a strong field of finalists for the 2009 prize
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Small Talk: David Malouf
What am I most proud of writing? ‘Imaginary Life’. If you’re lucky as a writer you get one ‘gift’ book where you break through into a different kind of writing
Barbara Kingsolver
What is the strangest thing I’ve done when researching a book? For ‘The Poisonwood Bible’ I spent an afternoon in the venomous reptiles house of Cincinnati Zoo
Small Talk: Sandi Toksvig
Who is my perfect reader? I don’t think one person would fit the bill. If I had known there was a perfect reader I would have put an ad in The Lady and saved myself a lot of bother
Small Talk: Jeanette Winterson
What does it mean to be a writer? It means both complete freedom and absolute discomfort. I can never settle because of the freedom it gives me
Small Talk: Richard Flanagan
What am I most proud of writing? My first novel, ‘Death of a River Guide,’ because writing it was so hard and seemingly so doomed, and the publication of it freed me
