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Booker Prize Winning Follow-Up Release Date Confirmed

thebookseller.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Atlantic Books has revealed that Aravind Adiga's follow-up to the Man Booker prize winning The White Tiger will be published in June next year. Ravi M...

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Booker Winner 'Finkler Question' Reviewed By Ron Charles

washingtonpost.com | Ron Charles | Posted 05.25.2011

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Although there is a plot, "The Finkler Question" is really a series of tragicomic meditations on one of humanity's most tenacious expressions of malic...

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Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Peter Carey, Alan Hollinghurst And More

Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday, the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction went to Howard Jacobson for "The Finkler Question." Although Jacobson took home the prize yesterday, ...

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Booker Prize Betting Suspended

The Guardian | Benedicte Page | Posted 05.25.2011

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The bookmaker's spokesperson David Williams said £15,000-worth of bets were placed on "C" on Wednesday morning, completely outstripping all earlier b...

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Booker Prize 2010 Shortlist

themanbookerprize.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber) Emma Donoghue Room (Picador - Pan Macmillan) Damon Galgut In a Strange Room (Atlantic Bo...

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Martin Amis: Awards Only Go To Boring Books

Telegraph | Stephen Adams, Arts Correspondent | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amis, 60, has never won a major literary award such as the Man Booker or Costa, despite his popular appeal. The closest he got was when his novel Time...

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Why J.G. Farrell's 'Troubles' Deserved To Win The Lost Booker Prize

The Guardian | Sam Jordison | Posted 05.25.2011

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The best book won. JG Farrell's Troubles took more than twice as many votes as any other book on the shortlist for the Lost Booker prize -- and quite ...

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Booker Prize: Why No Coverage?

The Guardian | Robert McCrum | Posted 05.25.2011

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Once upon a time in the last century, when new fiction was fashionable, the Booker prize (now the Man Booker) was considered Breaking News, upending t...

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The Forgettable And The Overlooked In Lit Prizes

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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This year is a good one for female writers; most of the major literature prizes have gone to women, though whether this is a fluke, a new trend of hei...

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