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My so-called life"Fiction has become a bit like painting in the age of photography,'' Yagoda observes, "a novelty item that has its place in the Booker Prize/Whitney Museum high culture and in the genre-fiction/black-velvet-Elvis low but is oddly absent in... In this article: Confessions, Rigoberta Menchu, Oprah Winfrey, Dog, God, Booker Prize, Civil War, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and The Jungle |
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FT.com - Arts & Weekend | 1 day ago
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...dominated by works set in the past, including Hilary Mantel's magisterial recreation of the court of Henry VIII, winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize. In a triumph of literary fiction over the mass market, Mantel's Wolf Hall briefly topped...
In this article: Allen Lane, Communism, God, Charles Darwin, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Hilary Mantel
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Independent.co.uk - Commentators | 1 day ago
Boyd Tonkin: At last, there's a bit of variety in the bestseller lists
...the head of the sales lists. This week's top 20 has two titles in translation, by Stieg Larsson and Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It features the year's Man Booker winner (Hilary Mantel), Robert Harris's most challenging Roman novel so far, Lustrum, and...
In this article: Man Booker, Stieg Larsson, Random House, John Grisham, Terry Pratchett, and Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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The Seattle Times | 1 day ago
What our writers love this week
...ABC. Gather your little Whos around the tube and tune in. Lynn Jacobson, Seattle Times A&E editor In this book of linked stories, Man Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga ("The White Tiger") takes his cue from James Joyce's "Dubliners" and...
In this article: Kittur, The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga, Grinch, Seattle Times, Dr. Seuss, Dubliners, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and James Joyce
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Miami Herald | 1 day ago
Giving books in a digital age
...in The New Yorker. Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel (Knopf, $27): This meaty historical novel, which won this year's prestigious Man Booker Prize, traces the life of Thomas Cromwell, advisor to Henry VIII (never a safe proposition).
In this article: Knopf, The Miami Herald, Henry VIII, The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell, St. Martin's Griffin, and Stieg Larsson
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Independent.co.uk - Books | 2 days ago
Weekly book agenda: UK's 'most enjoyable' reads, comics festival in France
...the UK and Ireland. Launched in 1971, the awards recognize the "most enjoyable books of the year," and are a more populist version of the Booker Prize. Winners are chosen in five categories, and each receives GBP5,000 (EUR5,500); an overall...
In this article: UK, France, Mediabistro.com, Booker Prize, Google Books, Iphone, and Elizabeth Gilbert
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Times Online | 3 days ago
Brooke Magnanti 'misses job satisfaction' of Belle de Jour
...be entirely retired: "I think there might be a bit left in Belle de Jour yet," she said. The former call girl joined Hilary Mantel, the Man Booker prizewinner, on the programme, to discuss her literary influences. She said she was inspired...
In this article: Hilary Mantel, Sheffield University, Man Booker, Cancer, The Red and the Black, Eoin Colfer, and Stendhal
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Independent.co.uk - Books | 4 days ago
Costa Book Awards shortlists revealed: Booker Prize-winner in the running
...deems the "most enjoyable books of the year." On November 24, shortlists for the 2009 awards were announced. Novel award finalists include Booker Prize-winner Hilary Mantel, Penelope Lively, Colm T�ibin, and the lesser-known author...
In this article: Booker Prize, Penelope Lively, and United Kingdom
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BBC News | 4 days ago
Booker winner up for Costa award
Booker winner Hilary Mantel makes Costa shortlist Hilary Mantel triumphed in the Booker last month Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel has made the shortlist for the Costa Book Awards with Wolf Hall. She is pitted against Penelope...
In this article: Booker Prize and Fiona Phillips
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Independent.co.uk - Books | 4 days ago
Two dead authors in line for Costa Prize
...Oxford, but she did not realise the ambition until last year, when she wrote the book in an intensive period of four months. Hilary Mantel's Booker prize-winning novel, Wolf Hall, is up for the novel award alongside Colm Toibin's Brooklyn,...
In this article: Siobhan Dowd, Ruth Padel, Family Album, Cancer, Charles Darwin, Clive Stafford Smith, Penelope Lively, and Aneurysm
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BBC News | November 18, 2009
Motion to chair 2010 Booker Prize
Sir Andrew has just finished his term as Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion is to chair the judges for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction next year, it has been announced. The former Poet Laureate said it was an "exciting...
In this article: Royal Holloway College, Hilary Mantel, and London
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The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or Ireland.
The winner of the Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success and, for this reason, the prize is of great significance for the book trade. It is also a mark of distinction for authors to be nominated for the Booker longlist or selected for inclusion in the shortlist. In 1993, the Booker of Bookers Prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner), as the best novel to win the award in the first 25 years of its existence. A similar prize known as The Best of the Booker was awarded in 2008 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the prize - this was also won by Midnight's Children.
The most recent recipient of the Booker Prize is Indian author Aravind Adiga, for his debut novel The White Tiger; the winner was announced on 14 October 2008.
For a complete list of winning and shortlisted authors, see List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction.
- Name:
- Man Booker Prize
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- Man Group
- First Awarded:
- January 01, 1968
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