Booker Prize
Authors (front L-R) Swiss Peter Stamm, Chinese Yan Lianke, US, Lydia Davis, French Marie N'Diaye, Indian Intizar Husain, Indian U R Anathamurthy and Croatian-Canadian Josip Novakovich, (back row L-R) Jonathan Taylor, Chair of the Booker Prize Foundation, and James Naughtie, BBC presenter and former judge of Man Booker Prize, pose during a photocall for the finalists of the 2013 Man Booker International literary prize in London on May 20, 2013. The winner of the Man Booker International Prixe will be announced May 22, 2013.
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Salman Rushdie: 10 quotes on his birthday
author Salman Rushdie first gained international attention when his second novel "Midnight's Children" won the Booker Prize in 1981. But it was Rushdie's fourth novel, "The Satanic Verses," published in 1988, that caused his fame to escalate. In 1989 Iran's 6/18/13 from Christian Science Monitor Read more »
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Hay Festival archive: Kazou Ishiguro, 2000
the Hay Festival in 2000, the Booker Prize winner talked to Francine Stock, presenter of BBC Radio 4's Front Row, about his novel When We Were Orphans, published that year. His other books at that time included Booker-winner The Remains of the Day, which was from The Telegraph Read more »
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Playing small god
sentences lined up. It is being like a small god,” says Yann Martel about his book “Life of Pi”, which won the Man Booker Prize. The Canadian author who writes in English speaks French, though it is this distance with the language that helps him write in English, from The Hindu Read more »
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Bring Up the Bodies (Excerpt)
fantasy series everyone seems to be talking about (you know, that one with a Khaleesi), so we're excerpting Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels! We've already taken a peek at Wolf Hall, so here's a chapter from : Though he battled for seven years to from Tor: Science Fiction Blog Read more »
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(Review) Midnight's Children
book, which was first published in 1981, was judged to be the Best of the Booker – the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in the last 40 years. It was also recently adapted into a film by director Deepa Mehta. The story revolves around Saleem Sinai from The Sun Daily Malaysia Read more »
