Booker Prize

Bring Up the Bodies: A Review and Interview With Booker Prize-winning Author Hilary Mantel

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: England, History, Anne Boleyn, Bring Up the Bodies, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, The Tudors, Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize, Henry VIII, Adultery, Books, Violence, Author Interviews, Books News
Ilana Teitelbaum

In Bring Up the Bodies, the sequel to the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel weaves a richly textured world that is at once deeply foreign and entirely relevant.

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The Story of Life: How It All Began by Penelope Lively

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 03.27.2012

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Nina Sankovitch

How It All Began is more than just a lovely and engaging story. It is a deeply incisive explanation of how we all begin, how we plod on, and how we approach the end.

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Timothy Mo Is Missing: Thoughts on SOPA, Creativity, and True Fans

Daniel Ben-Horin | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Small Press, Kevin Kelly, Chatto & Windus, Sopa, André Deutsch, Amanda Hocking, Booker Prize, 1000 True Fans, Timothy Mo, Technology News
Daniel Ben-Horin

imothy Mo set up Paddleless Press in the pre-web mid-Nineties. Today, with a database of his existing readers and SEO-savvy marketing techniques, he'd have a better chance.

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The Red Carpet Season for Books

Roxanne Coady | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Book Awards, National Book Awards, Book Award Season, Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Books News
Roxanne Coady

It's award season. Not the ones you're thinking of - the Emmys, the Oscars - but the Nobel, the Booker and the National Book Awards. Awards offer us, as readers, a focused, curated list of the best books of the year.

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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

Read More: Carol Birch, Booker Prize Winner, Booker Prize Winner 2011, Booker Prize 2011, Book Award, Man Booker Prize, Julian Barnes, Booker Prize, Sense of an Ending, Books News

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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Andrew Losowsky

Our Review Of The Booker Prize Shortlist

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Losowsky | Posted 12.16.2011

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Thrice-shortlisted author Julian Barnes is the favorite among gamblers to win the Man Booker Prize 2011. But is his the best book on the shortlist...

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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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Penelope Lively: 'eBooks For Bloodless Nerds'

Telegraph | Anita Singh | Posted 09.11.2011

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According to Penelope Lively, 78, the Booker Prize-winning author, e-books are for "bloodless nerds". She said that Kindles and other devices to which...

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Do You Still Read Fiction?

Lev Raphael | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Short Stories, Authors, Book Publishing, Books, Fiction, Novels, Biographies, Historical Fiction, Philip Roth, Booker Prize, The Gilded Age, Biography, Book Reviews, Reviewing, Roth on Fiction, Phillip Roth Fiction, Books News
Lev Raphael

Philip Roth has written two dozen novels, yet fiction has lost its appeal for him personally. When asked why, he said he didn't know, and only offered a smart-aleck response: "I wised up."

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Philip Roth Didn't Deserve Booker Prize

Anis Shivani | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Nobel Prize, Horace Engdahl, Carmen Callil, Booker International Prize, Philip Roth, Booker Prize, American Authors, Literary Prizes, Booker Prize Controversy, Books News
Anis Shivani

"There is powerful literature in all big cultures, but you can't get away from the fact that Europe still is the center of the literary world...not th...

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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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Unearthly Voices: Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Literature, England, Child Abuse, Abuse, Satire, Literary Fiction, Hilary Mantel, Horror, Booker Prize, Supernatural, Books News
Ilana Teitelbaum

One of the persistent motifs of Beyond Black is the triviality that pervades the spirit world: the idea that the dead are just as preoccupied with the temporal as they were in life.

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Indian Author Arundhati Roy In Trouble Over Kashmir Remarks

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW DELHI — Indian police were investigating Tuesday whether a Booker Prize-winning author and a hard-line Kashmiri separatist leader can be tri...

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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 Children's Book: The Heavenly Hell of Childhood

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: England, History, E. Nesbit, Fairy Tales, Children's Books, A.S. Byatt, Literary Fiction, Politics, Art, Libraries, Writing, Open Marriage, Fiction, International Politics, Booker Prize, Abuse, Relationships, Child Abuse, Books News
Ilana Teitelbaum

In the life of a reader--and by a reader I mean someone who has always read for pleasure--it is doubtful that any books have as much impact, in the en...

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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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God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam: Looking for Order in a Child's Universe

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nina Sankovitch

God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam was nominated for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1978 and has just been issued here in the United States by Europa Ed...

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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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An Interview With Author Peter Carey

Ben Evans | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fiction, Hunter College, Oscar and Lucinda, Fogged Clarity, Parrot and Olivier in America, True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey, Interviews, Booker Prize, Books News
Ben Evans

The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent.

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Literary Prize

The Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jacobson should not win because he has played up to the vague notions of the reviewers and judges and flattered them into thinking that, in The Finkle...

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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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