| 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 Prizewinning novel The Sea, The Sea (4,7) |
| RAND | Last name of the Russian-born American writer and philosopher who gained fame with her novel The Fountainhead (1943) |
| IRIS | Author of the 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea, _ Murdoch (4) |
| MOERAKI | Coastal township 75km north of Dunedin where Keri Hulme lived while writing the Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People (7) |
| ENRIGHT | Anne ___, author of 2007 Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Gathering (7) |
| THOREAU | Henry David, US poet and philosopher who wrote the work Walden about simple living (7) |
| ASBYATT | Under what name does the Booker Prize-winning novelist Antonia Susan Duffy publish? (1.1.5) |
| 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) |
| MARGARETATWOOD | Author of the Booker Prize-winning novel, The Blind Assassin (8,6) |
| ONDAATJE | Who wrote the Man Booker Prize-winning novel The English Patient (1992) |
| TARTT | Author of The Little Friend, The Secret History and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Goldfinch (5) |
| BYATT | Author of the Booker Prize-winning romance Possession and novel set in Edwardian England The Children's Book (5) |
| DESAI | Kiran, author of the Man Booker Prize winning novel The Inheritance of Loss (5) |
| MANTEL | British author of novels including the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the |
| MACHIAVELLI | Niccolo _, Florentine statesman and philosopher who wrote the 16th-century treatise The Prince (11) |
| BANVILLE | John ___, Irish novelist whose novel The Sea won the Man Booker Prize in 2005 |
| ADIGA | Aravind -, author of 2008 Booker Prize-winning novel The White Tiger (5) |
