Who has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize more times, Anita Desai or John Richardson?
John Richardson (art historian) Sir John Patrick Richardson, KBE, FBA (born 6 February 1924) is a British art historian and Picasso biographer. Richardson has also worked as an industrial designer and as a reviewer for "The New Observer". In 1952, he moved to Provence, where he became friends with Picasso, Léger and de Staël. In 1960, he moved to New York and organized a nine-gallery Picasso retrospective. Christie's then appointed him to open their US office, which he ran for the next nine years. In 1973 he joined New York gallery M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., as vice president in charge of 19th- and 20th-century painting, and later became managing director of Artemis, a mutual fund specializing in works of art.
Peter Carey (novelist) Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee and Hilary Mantel. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for "Oscar and Lucinda", and won for the second time in 2001 with "True History of the Kelly Gang". In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize.