Man Booker Prize

Julian Barnes, E.M. Forster, and the Message of the Unreliable Narrator

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 02.20.2012

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What does an unreliable narrator tell us about ourselves?

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The Winner Of The Booker Prize 2011 Is...

Posted 12.18.2011

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The Man Booker Prize 2011 was awarded to "The Sense Of An Ending" by Julian Barnes. British gambling institutions will be the most upset by the dec...

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The Booker Prize Announcement - LIVEBLOG

Posted 12.18.2011

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Join the Books Editor Andrew Losowsky as he waits for the big announcement. Tweet comments at @huffpostbooks, email books@huffingtonpost.com or leave ...

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What Is The Booker Prize, And Why Should You Care?

Posted 12.16.2011

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On Tuesday, the latest winner of The Man Booker Prize will be announced. It's one of the most important literary prizes in the English language - but ...

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Booker Prize Shortlist Contains Some Surprises

Posted 11.06.2011

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The shortlist for The Man Booker Prize 2011 has just been announced. According to British sportsbook company Ladbrokes, the favorite is clearly Julian...

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Interviews With Debut Booker Nominees

BBC News | Tim Masters | Posted 10.03.2011

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The Man Booker longlist, announced last week, included four first-time novelists. This week we talk to all four about the stories behind their books. ...

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Bravest Booker Longlist Of All Time?

Telegraph | Louise Doughty | Posted 09.28.2011

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One of the most difficult aspects of being a judge for the Man Booker Prize, as I discovered in 2008, becomes apparent when the longlist is announced....

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Man Booker Prize Longlist Announced/ Who Made The Man Booker Prize Longlist?

Posted 09.25.2011

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The Man Booker Longlist was announced today, and the books offer a surprising variety, from past award-winners to first-time authors, such as Stephen ...

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She Resigned As Judge When Philip Roth Won The Booker But She Likes This Novel

The Guardian | Carmen Callil | Posted 09.07.2011

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The Emperor of Lies is a novel about horrific historical fact, the Holocaust as experienced by the Jews of the Polish ghetto of Lodz. A bestseller in ...

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The Man Who Doesn't Like Prizes Gets Another

guardian.co.uk | Alison Flood | Posted 08.21.2011

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John le Carré might have withdrawn from the running for the Man Booker International prize because he "doesn't compete for literary awards", but the ...

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Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Awarded

The Bookseller | Posted 08.07.2011

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David Grossman's novel To the End of the Land (Jonathan Cape) has won this year's £4,000 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize, trumping both the 2010 Booke...

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Philip Roth Wins Man Booker Prize, Judge Quits In Protest (POLL)

Posted 07.18.2011

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Philip Roth was awarded The Man Booker Prize , it was announced this morning on the prize's website. The prize is worth close to $100,000. The Guardia...

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Author John Le Carre Turns Down Prize Nomination

AP | Posted 05.30.2011

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SYDNEY -- John le Carre was nominated Wednesday for the Man Booker prize recognizing an author's lifetime contribution to fiction, but the British wri...

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Two Authors Share International Prize For Arabic Fiction

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON -- Moroccan author Mohammed Achaari and Saudi Arabian writer Raja Alem will share this year's International Prize for Arabic Fiction. The ch...

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Man Booker 2011 Judges Announced

thebookseller.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Author Susan Hill and the Daily Telegraph's Gaby Wood are among the judges for next year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Writer and columnist Matth...

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The Finkler Question And Answer

Dovid Efune | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Finkler Question portrays the sad fact that most Jews today simply don't know what being Jewish means. Perhaps the Finkler answer comes with a shift in focus.

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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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Easy Reader: Howard Jacobson's Novel Takes the Prize

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Curiously and hilariously, the protagonist, Julian Treslove is not Jewish. Julian only wishes he were Jewish and for most of the narrative's duration set outs to do everything in his power to embrace Judaism.

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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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Literary Prize: Honored Books Certainly Sell, But How Well?

The Bookseller.com | Philip Stone | Posted 05.25.2011

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However, rejected longlistee Christos Tsiolkas' The Slap (Tuskar Rock) continues to outsell all the shortlistees, as it has done since the longlist wa...

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Stuck In A Moment

The Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011

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Not that it's anything new, or groundbreaking, or revolutionary -- we can all cite lists of authors from the past who chose to express themselves in t...

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Chair Of The Booker Prize Judges Andrew Motion Discusses The Shortlist

The Guardian | Andrew Motion | Posted 05.25.2011

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And how would I characterise this "best"? By all the means that sound familiar, but make their material strange. Good writing (adventurous as well as ...

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Booker Prize Longlist Announced For 2010

Posted 05.25.2011

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It's that time again... the Man Booker Prize has announced its 13-book longlist for 2010. The 50,000 pound literary prize will be announced this Octob...

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