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The inaugural Best of Young British Novelists picks, in 1983, now read like a who's who of literary greats. Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Salman Rushdie, Rose Tremain, Ian McKewan and Kazuo Ishiguro were amongst the highlighted young writers.