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| | 2002 Man Booker Prize |
 | | The Booker Prize for Fiction was originally set up by Booker plc in 1969 to reward merit, raise the stature of the author in the eyes of the public and encourage an interest in contemporary quality fiction. | | | Yann Martel, a Canadian writer, won the newly renamed Man Booker Prize tonight for his novel Life of Pi, the magical fable of a young man shipwrecked in the company of a Bengal tiger. | | | Every year publishers are allowed to submit two books for the Man Booker Prize. |
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http://mostlyfiction.com/news/bookershortlist2002.htm
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| | de Freitas Books - Man-Booker Prize List |
| | The Man Booker Prize, Great Britain's most coveted literary award, is given annually to "the best novel of the year written by a British or Commonwealth author... | | | Several Booker nominated books and/or authors can also be found on the First, Signed and Limited Editions list. | | | We offer Booker Prize titles whenever we can, and will add new books when they are in stock. |
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| | The Man Booker Prize 2003 |
| | The winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize is DBC Pierre for his novel Vernon God Little. | | | The Man Booker Prize represents the very best in contemporary fiction. | | | Life of Pi, the 2002 Man Booker winner by Canadian writer Yann Martel, has been optioned for film by Fox 2000, a division of Twentieth Century Fox. |
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http://www.britainusa.com/sections/articles_show.asp?SarticleType=1&Article_ID=4257&i=99
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| | International Booker Prize MetaFilter |
| | I think the Man Booker Prize is an important tool in helping to foster and shape the current state of contemporary fiction. | | | The *new* and separate International Booker Prize is open to any writer who's books are available in English (unlike the Booker these can be translations). | | | I think the International Man Booker Prize is an irrelevant piece of corporate sponsorship with a whit of in inspiring pub debate. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/39819
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| | Worth £60,000 to the winner, the prize will be awarded once every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose work is generally available in translation in the English language. | | | Her first published novel, The Comforters was written three years after Spark converted to Roman Catholicism and the novel was inspired by her studies on the Book of Job. | | | A Personal Matter was inspired by his own family's experiences in raising a mentally-challenged child. |
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http://www.manbookerinternational.com/media/20050218.php
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| | The Man Booker International Prize 2005 - Handicapping the Field: A Punter's Guide - the complete review Quarterly |
| | The 2003 prize is noteworthy because it resulted in an inferior book being honoured: 'DBC Pierre''s Vernon God Little. | | | And there is no nationality-requirement: the prize is open to any "living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose work is generally available in translation in the English language". | | | But his frailty and inability to go along with the media-frenzy the Man Booker folk will likely want speak against him, as does the fact that the Nobel folk got to him first. |
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http://www.complete-review.com/quarterly/vol6/issue1/mbiodds.htm
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| | Powell's Books - Award Winners - The Man Booker Prize |
| | The Man Booker Prize is awarded for the best novel written in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. | | | Winner of the 1994 Booker Prize, this witty, controversial, and brilliant bestselling novel has been compared to the works of Joyce, Beckett, and many other masters. | | | Powell's Books - Award Winners - The Man Booker Prize |
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http://www.powells.com/prizes/booker.html
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| | :: TurboBookSnob.com :: |
| | The Booker Prize is awarded each year to the best full-length novel written in the English language by a citizen of Great Britain, the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan, or South Africa. | | | Two children of authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize could also make the cut. | | | Despite these interesting tidbits, it seems like a slightly slow year for literature, with the bulk of the novels centering around relationship stories, or "McNovels" as the TurboBookSnob's husband prefers to call them. |
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http://www.turbobooksnob.com
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| | BBC News ENTERTAINMENT Atwood wins Booker Prize |
| | He told Atwood she was "three times the bridesmaid, now the bride", for winning on her fourth attempt. | | | Chairman of the judges Simon Jenkins said of her book, which sees an elderly woman reflect on the events of her life: "It's not a sad book, but it's a sad book. | | | Links to more Entertainment stories are at the foot of the page. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_1011000/1011980.stm
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| | Booker Prize - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | I wonder if now is a good time to tell the headmaster about the copies of every novel submitted to the Man Booker Prize that are about to be dumped on... | | | Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death (Man Booker Prize) | | | In the first 35 years of the Booker there were five years that fewer than six books were on the shortlist and two years (1980 and 1981) when there were seven on the shortlist. |
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http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/booker_prize.htm
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| | New Statesman: The great game; throughout its 35-year history, the Booker Prize has never failed to generate ... |
| | The prize, which was last year raised from 20,000 [pounds sterling] to 50,000 [pounds sterling], ensures that the winning novel becomes a bestseller in Britain and much of the rest of the world too. | | | As the owner of several lucrative literary copyrights, including those of Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie, from which it earned more than an estimated 2m [pounds sterling] per year, Booker plc was seeking to return some of the proceeds of these profits to the world of books. | | | In truth, the Booker over its 35-year history has, if anything, been prejudiced against difficulty and obscurity. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4652_132/ai_107835506
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| | The Daily Princetonian - Hollinghurst details journey to Booker Prize |
| | Old Dominion Fellow and Booker prize winner Alan Hollinghurst sits in his office. | | | Hollinghurst, who took six years to complete "The Line of Beauty," is generally considered to be a slow writer. | | | Hollinghurst, at the University this fall as an Old Dominion Fellow, won this year's prize Oct. 19 for his fourth novel, "The Line of Beauty." |
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http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2004/11/29/news/11578.shtml
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| | Daily Mirror Online |
| | Her rustic idyll set in her childhood Kerala caught the publisher's and then the worldwide readership's imagination with a bold formula and an age-old theme, told endearingly through the stream of consciousness of a small girl.That sure-fire tale was archetypal: doomed love, that is, forbidden dalliance between a "high-caste" (yes!) Christian and an untouchable. | | | In Mumbai there was a miaow from bestseller Shobha De, who acidly dismissed the success of Roy's book as "a freak thing that happened". | | | My book is not the best book...it is the luckier book. |
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http://www.dailymirror.lk/2002/11/18/opinion/2.html
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| | American-British literary war - Man Book International Prize - New York Magazine Book Review |
| | In addition to the distinguished annual British award, the new Man Booker International Prize will be given every two years, and is open, rather confusingly, to any novelist writing in English or who has been widely translated into English. | | | Too bad for that Czech or Afrikaans novelist who has not yet had the royal summons to appear in English. | | | The anxiety of those British protesters is indeed a bit embarrassing. |
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http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/books/reviews/9296
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| | Man Booker Prize |
| | The literary Olympics; BROUGHT TO BOOK; The judges of the Man Booker now know the 17 novels they have to choose from after the prize's long list was announced yesterday. | | | Most of all, I like bad behaviour The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst is the first 'gay novel' to win the Man Booker Prize. | | | Strong shortlist for Man Booker Prize.(News) (The Birmingham Post (England)) |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0203151.html
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| | USATODAY.com - Booker Prize organizers decide against including Americans |
| | The Booker Prize, backed by the Booker foods group, was established in 1969 to reward good writing, to raise the stature of the author in the eyes of the public and to encourage an interest in contemporary quality fiction. | | | "We took the decision that the Man Booker Prize should remain as it is because its hallmark is that it honors Commonwealth writers," Martyn Goff, administrator of the prize, said Monday. | | | Goff said the prize organizers were considering setting up a separate lifetime achievement award along with the annual Booker for best novel, and that that would be open to writers of any nationality, as long as their work was published in English. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2002-11-18-booker_x.htm
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| | 2003 Man Booker Prize |
| | First-time novelist DBC Pierre won the Man Booker Prize for his black comedy Vernon God Little. | | | Of the twenty-three books selected for the 2003 Man Book Prize, the judges did indeed have a hard time whittling it down to the following shortlist. | | | The shortlist for the for the 2003 Man Booker Prize includes in alphabetical order by author (includes US publication date, except where noted; all titles link to amazon.com): |
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http://mostlyfiction.com/news/booker2003.htm
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| | Booker Prize on Encyclopedia.com |
| | It is an award of £60,000 presented every two years to a living author of any nationality whose fiction is either written in English or is generally available in English translation. | | | Why can't judges pick books we want to read? |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/B/BookerP1r.asp
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| | BookSense.com |
| | This unusual tale of an Indian teenager and a Bengali tiger named Richard Parker adrift at sea was also a top 10 July/August Book Sense 76 pick. | | | BookSense.com offers an extensive list of award-winners, from the Pulitzer Prize to regional bookseller awards, to the Book Sense Book of the Year. | | | Browse our listings, and discover the best books for all ages and interests, year by year! |
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http://www.booksense.com/readup/awards/index.jsp
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books Special Reports Booker Prize 2003 |
| | Mine got a lot harder a few years back when my agent took pity on my poverty and employed me to sort through the heap of unsolicited manuscripts in her office. | | | Raw, involving novel from a Birmingham-based publisher about a woman spiralling into obsession after losing a child, while discovering shocking truths about her own parentage | | | October 17: The penitent DBC Pierre has made good his vow to begin to repay the artist he swindled out of his home. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/bookerprize2003/0,13819,1019602,00.html
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| | Pat Barker |
| | There is no doubt that Regeneration, with its attention to historical detail and skilful blending of factual and fictional characters is her most subtle and satisfying work. | | | Another World (1998), although set in contemporary Newcastle, is overshadowed by the memories of an old man who fought in the First World War. | | | Many readers come to Barker's work through her best-known books, the Regeneration (1991-1995) trilogy, the third book of which won the Booker Prize in 1995. |
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| | CNN.com - Books - Booker prize brings glory -- but what about sales? - November 9, 2000 |
| | Irish author Michael Collins managed to offload just 370 copies of his book "The Keepers of Truth," up from 184 before he was shortlisted. | | | The British literary award, worth 21,000 pounds ($29,900), usually propels authors up bestseller lists around the world. | | | A Bloomsbury spokesman said the problem was that Atwood -- who had made it onto the shortlist three times before -- was already so popular that her book was unlikely to benefit from the prize as had works by less well-known authors. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2000/books/news/11/09/arts.booker.reut
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| | CBC Arts: Atwood up for new Booker prize |
| | "Over the years the Man Booker Prize has shortlisted authors from all corners of the Commonwealth — from Africa to Australasia, the Americas to India — whose writing reflects the diversity and richness of their cultural background. | | | The award will be given every two years for an author's entire body of work, originally published in English or readily available translated into English. | | | FROM CBC ARCHIVES: Margaret Atwood: Queen of CanLit |
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| | Prize Fight - What does the Booker Prize long-list say about British fiction? By Elena Lappin |
| | Today, being a Commonwealth or Irish citizen will allow a novelist to qualify for Britain's most coveted literary prize, the Man Booker Prize, now worth $80,000 (or 50,000 pounds). | | | Other big names in contemporary British (or rather Commonwealth) literature have not been so lucky (Peter Carey, J.G. Ballard, Andrew O'Hagan, Peter Ackroyd, Jim Crace, Pat Barker). | | | Monica Ali, famous since her appearance on the Granta list of this year's best young novelists (and the only one to cross over into the Booker domain) depicts, in her first novel, Brick Lane, the complicated life of a Bangladeshi bride in London's East End. |
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| | New Statesman: Americans welcome - The Booker Prize - Brief Article |
| | To win the Booker is a life-changing experience for most authors: they are guaranteed an immediate international readership, Hollywood interest in their work, a handsome advance for their next book, and media and marketing support. | | | But I don't think it will happen before 2004." | | | Instead, it was won that year by Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, an admirably ambitious first novel but, all the same, one singularly lacking the distinction of the American masters. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4589_131/ai_87016007
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| | NPR : Booker Prize Goes to Banville's 'The Sea' |
| | Morning Edition, October 11, 2005 · Britain's top literary honor, the Man Booker Prize, has been awarded to Irish author John Banville's 14th novel, The Sea. | | | NPR : Booker Prize Goes to Banville's 'The Sea' | | | He beat high-profile competition including Julian Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro and Zadie Smith. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4953637&ft=1&f=3
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| | J.M. Coetzee honored with Booker Prize, top British fiction award |
| | Coetzee said the list of books he recently has been reading includes a biography of Daniel Defoe by Richard West; Extinction by Thomas Bernhard; The Emigrants by W. Sebald; and a collection of documents on aspects of French history titled Realms of Memory. | | | He also has published three books of criticism, most recently, Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship (University of Chicago Press). | | | Pippin said Coetzee& second Booker Prize reaffirms for the world what his students and the members of the Committee on Social Thought have been fortunate enough to experience first hand. |
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| | Albanian novelist wins Man Booker prize - Boston.com - Europe - News |
| | The Man Booker International Prize, the creation of which was announced last year, is open to authors of all nationalities whose work has been either written or translated widely into English. | | | Before that, his French publisher, Editions Fayard, smuggled his work out of Albania, the prize committee said. | | | Kadare, who writes both poetry and prose, became famous in his homeland with the 1963 publication of his first novel, "The General of the Dead Army." His other works include "The Concert," and "The Palace of Dreams." |
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/06/03/albanian_novelist_wins_man_booker_prize
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| | WJLA - Six Books in Running for Man Booker Prize |
| | WJLA - Six Books in Running for Man Booker Prize | | | Six Books in Running for Man Booker Prize | | | The Man Booker Prize is open to writers from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth of former British colonies. |
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| | Bibliofemme: Tóibín, Bennett on Booker longlist |
| | David Mitchell, an English author resident in Ireland, is also on the longlist for his novel, 'Cloud Atlas' (Sceptre). | | | Last year's winner, 'Vernon God Little' by DBC Pierre (Faber & Faber) has gone on to sell nearly half a million copies and is being translated into 30 languages. | | | The full longlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2004 is as follows; |
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| | Powell's Books - Award Winners |
| | The Man Booker Prize is awarded for the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. | | | The Man Booker Prize is sponsored by Booker PLC. | | | Based on the recipient's entire body of published work, the Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded "to the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency." |
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Arts Spark heads world Booker nominees |
| | The prize commends an author for their body of work instead of one book. | | | The new £60,000 award is open to writers of all nationalities who write in English or are widely translated. | | | Dame Muriel Spark is among three British authors who have made the shortlist for the inaugural international Booker Prize. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4277897.stm
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| | Booker Prize 2000 Shortlist Announced |
| | Each of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, receives £1,000 in addition to a designer bound edition of their own book. | | | 120 books were entered for the prize this year. | | | The Booker Prize for Fiction was set up by Booker plc in 1968 to reward merit, raise the stature of the author in the eyes of the public, and increase the sales of the books. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books Special Reports Repentant rogue DBC Pierre wins Booker |
| | Now he can add Man Booker winner to that gobsmacking curriculum vitae. | | | Finlay took on his pseudonym, which stands for "Dirty But Clean" Pierre, as a wry play on the nickname his friends conferred upon him. | | | The many creditors of the novelist DBC Pierre were given a crumb of comfort last night when the self-confessed serial "conniving bastard" won literature's greatest prize, the Man Booker, in an extraordinary final twist to an already bizarre story. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/bookerprize2003/story/0,13819,1063173,00.html
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| | Books Dead poet’s society |
| | Australia, as Peter Carey recounted in his last novel, the Booker Prize—winning True History of the Kelly Gang, is fond of depicting itself as the land of proud outlaws, heirs to the largely British and Irish criminals who founded the Australian republic in their own roughhewn image. | | | It’s a myth Carey toys with often, as questions about identity and character tend to surface in all his works. | | | Every country has its myths; perhaps every culture does as well. |
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| | Scotsman.com News - Booker Prize |
| | Conan Doyle detective tale favourite for Man Booker | | | Booker boss: Judges don't read all the books | | | THE Albanian dissident writer Ismail Kadare yesterday collected the first Man Booker International... |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books Special Reports Booker Prize 2004 |
| | Read an extract from The Line of Beauty | | | The Man Booker is one of the world's most famous literary prizes. | | | This year's £50,000 Man Booker prize has been awarded to Alan Hollinghurst, for his satire of the 1980s Tory government, The Line of Beauty. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/bookerprize2004/0,14182,1127217,00.html
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| | Telegraph News Judges unveil Booker Prize shortlist |
| | It is followed by Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty which is 3-1 on to win the £50,000 prize. | | | Although full of praise for the six shortlisted books, the judges have criticised the general standard of entries this year and said that many submitted by publishers were "really dreadful". | | | All of these books would stand contention with Booker winners over the years. |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/21/ubook.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/09/21/ixportaltop.html
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| | Salon Books "Disgrace" by J.M. Coetzee |
| | In both books a man is broken down almost to nothing before he finds some tiny measure of redemption in his forced acceptance of the realities of life and death. | | | National Book Awards and beyond Who would win if you were the judge? | | | Coetzee wins Booker Prize 1999 is the year of the bleak horse. |
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http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/11/05/coetzee
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| | The Book Forum - Booker Prize goes Hollywood? |
| | 27th May 2002 10:19 AM I too think that the Booker Prize should remain open only for Commonwealth authors. | | | I don't agree with the name change to "The Man Booker Prize" either. | | | I'd like to know the real reasons for wanting to expand the title selections to American novels. |
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| | Telegraph News |
| | The book, which tells the story of a Bangladeshi girl sent to London to be married, is one of 23 titles chosen from 117 entries in contention for the £50,000 prize. | | | Monica Ali, who was singled out as one of the country's best young authors before she was even published, has been included on the "long list" for the Booker Prize for her first novel, Brick Lane. | | | Official longlist announced [15 Aug '03] - Man Booker Prize 2003 |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/08/16/nbook16.xml
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| | (GCKMQW) The Booker Prize by Bob Smith |
| | The cache is hidden in woodland (Booker Common) on the outskirts of High Wycombe, close to the M40 motorway and Booker Airfield. | | | [Clue 2, I've been a bit devious here, don't want to make the prize too easy do we? | | | Please note: To use the services of geocaching.com, you must agree to the terms and conditions in our disclaimer. |
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| | Winners and Shortlist of the Booker Prize for Fiction |
| | Each shortlisted author will receive 2,500 GBP in addition to a leather bound copy of his or her own book. | | | The Man Booker Prize for Fiction was founded in 1968 by Booker Brothers. | | | Administered since 2002 by the Booker Prize Foundation in the United Kingdom, this prestigious award is given to the best full-length novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom by a citizen of the Commonwealth or Republic of Ireland. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Line of Beauty takes the Booker |
| | Hollinghurst's book was the first gay novel to win the Booker in its 36 years. | | | Mitchell's imaginative tour of the world and the centuries was evens favourite with Ladbroke's and 5:4 with William Hill. | | | Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty, the year's outstanding big literary novel, carried off the £50,000 Man Booker prize last night in the face of strong opposition from rivals and acute disappointment. |
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| | British Literary Prizes |
| | Another invaluable book is the Book Trust Guide to Literary Prizes, published annually by the Book Trust (Book Trust, Book House, 45 East Hill, London SW18 2QZ). | | | The David Cohen British Literature Prize in the English Language | | | The British have a prize-giving culture, and British literary life is strongly flavored by the prizes which have become so important. |
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http://www.unca.edu/%7Emoseley/prizes.html
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| | Interview Michele Roberts |
| | However, in a style worthy of the voluptuous feminist she is, Roberts rescues these women from history's margins and creates a tale of beauty and triumph that echoes under their feet. | | | Michèle Roberts: We had two childhoods, really, because my mother is French -- from Normandy -- and every summer we had this long visit to the grandparents'. | | | Nominated for the Booker Prize for Daughters of the House in 1992, Roberts, now 51, lives in London, England and Mayenne, France with the artist, Jim Latter. |
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| | Yann Martel |
| | Life of Pi: "A fabulous romp through an imagination by turns ecstatic, cunning, despairing and resilient, this novel is an impressive achievement -- "a story that will make you believe in God," as one character says.... | | | This richly patterned work, Martel's second novel, won Canada's 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. | | | Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios: "Yann Martel's new, strong voice weaves together our smallest anxieties and memories with the sentences and executions passed upon all of us by war, crime, and life...Martel has that rare talent of making fiction true and thus painful yet compelling." --John Ralston Saul |
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