| KERIHULME | Author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People (4,5) |
| KERI | Author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People (4.5) |
| HULME | Author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People (4.5) |
| MOERAKI | Coastal township 75km north of Dunedin where Keri Hulme lived while writing the Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People (7) |
| MARGARETATWOOD | Author of the Booker Prize-winning novel, The Blind Assassin (8,6) |
| IRISCHASE | Protagonist of Margaret Atwood's Booker Prize-winning novel The Blind Assassin |
| DBCPIERRE | Author of the Booker winner Vernon God Little |
| BYATT | Author of the Booker Prize-winning romance Possession and novel set in Edwardian England The Children's Book (5) |
| INNOCENCE | Martin Scorsese directed the film version of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer-winning novel, The Age Of ... |
| BEN | Nigerian author of the Booker-winning novel, The Famished Road; ... Okri |
| MURDOCH | Iris ---, author and philosopher who wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, The Sea (7) |
| IRISMURDOCH | Author and philosopher who wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, The Sea (4,7) |
| ARUNDHATIROY | Author of the novel "The God of Small Things", winner of the Booker Prize in 1997 |
| DESAI | Kiran, author of the Man Booker Prize winning novel The Inheritance of Loss (5) |
| PETERCAREY | Author of the Booker Prize winner, Oscar And Lucinda (5,5) |
| ELEANORCATTON | New Zealand author of the Booker prizewinning novel The Luminaries |
| OKRI | Ben, author of the Booker Prizewinning novel The Famished Road (4) |
| TARTT | Author of The Little Friend, The Secret History and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Goldfinch (5) |
| ADIGA | Aravind -, author of 2008 Booker Prize-winning novel The White Tiger (5) |
| ENRIGHT | Anne ___, author of 2007 Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Gathering (7) |