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Man Booker
BBC:
Sir Andrew Motion is to chair the judges for the prestigious Man Booker Prize next year, it is announced. (Read More)
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Newly free from his duties as poet laureate, the poet will lead deliberations to find 2010's best novelFormer poet laureate Andrew Motion will chair the judging panel for next year's Man Booker prize, following an eclectic ro (Read More)
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Nigerian novelist says he resists the tag 'very, very strongly' because it obscures the role of many other writersNigerian author Chinua Achebe has spoken out about his dislike at being labelled "the father of modern African (Read More)
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The novelist tells Alison Flood about time travel, Galileo and why SF writers aren't prophets any moreAs his publisher Jane Johnson, an author herself, puts the finishing touches to a roast chicken in the kitchen, Kim Stanley (Read More)
The Guardian:
The novelist tells Alison Flood about time travel, Galileo and why SF writers aren't prophets any moreAs his publisher Jane Johnson, an author herself, puts the finishing touches to a roast chicken in the kitchen, Kim Stanley (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Fact and fiction blur as Heartland novelist Anthony Cartwright take Chris Arnot on a tour through estates of despairThere is a passage in Anthony Cartwright's novel, Heartland, currently being serialised on Radio 4, in which (Read More)
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Something strange is happening in England: the National Academy of Writing has launched the first Good Writing Awards. Aren't all the existing literary awards -- the Man Booker and the Pulitzer, the Nobel and the Dayton Li (Read More)
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New York Times:
Tolerant, passionate and humane, Thomas Cromwell is cast as the picaresque hero of this Man Booker Prize-winning novel of Henry VIII’s turbulent court.
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guardian.co.uk Film:
Director says he has cracked the structure of Yann Martel's allegorical novel about a boy adrift at sea with a tigerIt has been stuck in development hell for much of the past decade, but the big-screen version of Yann Martel' (Read More)
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How our literary tastes have changed over the yearsEighty years ago the Manchester Guardian (as this paper then was) ran a poll to discover from its readers' votes the "novelists who may be read in 2029". Only another 20 y (Read More)
New York Times:
Earlier this year, the novelist Jane Smiley was a judge for the Man Booker International Prize. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Roald Dahl's children's books are full of barely submerged misogyny, lust and violence. The new film version of Fantastic Mr Fox is an ideal introduction to this fabulous, cruel worldA few months ago, I was coming out of the (Read More)
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Roald Dahl's children's books are full of barely submerged misogyny, lust and violence. The new film version of Fantastic Mr Fox is an ideal introduction to this fabulous, cruel worldA few months ago, I was coming out of the (Read More)
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An exclusive short story by Hilary Mantel, winner of the Man Booker prize 2009September: when she began to lose weight at first, her sister had said, I don't mind; the less of her the better, she said. It was only when Morna (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Style:
Book awards season began in earnest this week for fiction -- the Man Booker Prize and the American Book Award on Tuesday, the Nobel on Thursday -- and once again, we are completely lost.
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Everyone has a dirty secret; a way of spending their leisure time that they do not admit in polite society. But something has happened this week that allows me to crow about my weakness. Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel, an unabas (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Hilary Mantel's Booker-winner Wolf Hall has pushed Dan Brown's new novel into second place on Amazon's sales chartsThomas Cromwell has seen off Robert Langdon after Hilary Mantel's Booker prize win on Tuesday night sent her n (Read More)
New York Times:
Hilary Mantel won the 41st annual Man Booker Prize on Tuesday night for “Wolf Hall,” a historical novel about Henry VIII’s court.
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Watch this year's Man Booker prizewinner, Hilary Mantel, talk about her triumphant novel, Wolf Hall, how she came to admire her scheming hero Thomas Cromwell, and why she writes historical fictionSarah CrownAndy Gallagher
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www.guardian.co.uk:
Hilary Mantel has won this year's Man Booker prize with her fictionalised life of Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall. I'm delighted - are you?So there it is: for the first time in a decade, the bookies' favourite has romped away with (Read More)
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