Which author won the Booker Prize in 1982 for the novel that inspired 'Schindler's List'?

Thomas Keneally won the Booker Prize in 1982 for Schindler's Ark, the novel that later inspired Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List.

Keneally's historical novel tells a fictionalised version of Oskar Schindler's efforts to save Jewish workers during the Holocaust. Although the book is a work of fiction, it draws heavily on real people, testimony and documented events in Nazi-occupied Poland. Its original Commonwealth title was Schindler's Ark; the American edition was published as Schindler's List.

The story began when Keneally met Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor and one of the people saved by Schindler. Pfefferberg showed Keneally files about Schindler and persuaded him to write the book. He later accompanied the author during research trips to Kraków and other locations connected with the events.

The 1993 film adaptation made the story internationally famous, but the Booker-winning novel came more than a decade earlier. Keneally's award is also notable as the first Booker Prize won by an Australian author.