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Groans of boredom as Andrew Motion is chosen to chair the Man Booker Prize panel 23 Nov 2009 15:43 GMT
... What are the Man Booker organisers thinking? News that they have appointed Andrew Motion the chairman of ...
Auditors attacked over banks 23 Nov 2009 05:11 GMT
... bank balance sheets,” he said. “These audited accounts would easily have won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Yet no auditing firm has been investigated for its role in the ...
The audit industry should serve society ... not themselves 23 Nov 2009 05:11 GMT
... vanished from bank balance sheets. These audited accounts would easily have won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Yet no auditing firm has been investigated for its role in the ...
Avarind Adiga's The White Tiger 23 Nov 2009 14:36 GMT
... offspring in the debut novel by Aravind Adiga and recipient of the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Balram Halwai, our ambitious hero, may be a successful “entrepreneur” in Bangalore, but he ...
Poet Motion to chair 2010 Booker Prize judges 18 Nov 2009 13:17 GMT
... Former poet laureate Andrew Motion will chair the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, one of the world's top literary awards, organisers said on Wednesday. The ...

Motion to chair Man Booker prize 18 Nov 2009 10:46 GMT
... laureate Andrew Motion is to be chair of the judges for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Motion, who is professor of creative writing at Royal Holloway College, University ...
Andrew Motion to chair Booker prize judges 18 Nov 2009 12:35 GMT
... , Wednesday 18 November 2009 11.04 GMT Novel project ... Andrew Motion. Photograph: Murdo Macloed will chair ...
Mohammed Hanif : Facing facts, fiction and fruit 22 Nov 2009 07:52 GMT
... of Exploding Mangoes receives much critical acclaim, including being long-listed for the 2008 Man Booker prize and winning the 2009 Commonwealth Best First Book Prize. However, when speaking at the ...
Sarkozy rebuffed in plan to bury Camus in latest rebuff for president from artistic community 22 Nov 2009 19:40 GMT
... the President ever since an MP loyal to him claimed the winner of France's Booker prize had a "duty" to refrain from criticising the government. The fueding has compounded a ...
Nicolas Sarkozy rebuffed in plan to move Albert Camus 22 Nov 2009 20:10 GMT
... the President ever since an MP loyal to him claimed the winner of France's Booker prize had a "duty" to refrain from criticising the government. The fueding has compounded a ...

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While historical fiction wins all the big awards, greater re 21 Nov 2009 19:50 GMT
... back (with Poet Laureate, will serve as Chair of the judges for the 2010 Booker Prize for Fiction, according to an annoncement November Whether it’s Halloween season or beach season, ...
Chinese writer wins top Asia prize 19 Nov 2009 02:36 GMT
... Revolution. It won the Man Asian Literary prize, the regional equivalent of London's Man Booker prize. “I feel this prize is independently judged,” Su told Reuters. “So it's important to ...
Banville vows to avoid sex 21 Nov 2009 02:51 GMT
... disguised as her husband. Speaking at the Irish Writers' Centre on Thursday evening, the Booker prize winner appeared to be approaching this latest accolade with the appropriate gravitas. “I've been ...
Roth, Banville up for bad sex writing award 19 Nov 2009 17:13 GMT
... America's most esteemed writers, is in good company among this year's nominees, which include Booker Prize winner John Banville, Israeli novelist Amos Oz and punk rocker turned writer Nick Cave. ...
An autumn bounty of books 22 Nov 2009 05:11 GMT
... memoir, "Half a Life." Coetzee's latest novel has been nominated for the prestigious Man Booker Prize, the annual contemporary fiction award given to writers from the British Commonwealth and Ireland. ...
The Harpers grow up in shabby-chic Allersmead in 'Family Album' 22 Nov 2009 06:53 GMT
... her latest and 16th novel -- in a long, distinguished career that includes a Booker Prize -- out from the central axis of a lovely home in need of a ...
'Love and Summer' extraordinary 22 Nov 2009 08:17 GMT
... as the Irish writer's new novel, Love and Summer, long-listed for this year's Man Booker Prize. Love and Summer centres on Ellie Dillahan, a young, convent-bred orphan who marries her ...
McCann's success 21 Nov 2009 02:54 GMT
... McCann expressed some disappointment at not being included in the long-list for the much-hyped Booker Prize. His recompense in receiving the National Book Award this week is not to be ...
Nigel Lawson takes on the planet alone 21 Nov 2009 09:01 GMT
... Nigel Lawson: Thatcher's Chancellor takes on the planet alone As he challenges conventional wisdom on climate ...
Christmas Books II 19 Nov 2009 07:53 GMT
... invented them too. Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake would have won the 2003 Man Booker Prize if this judge had had anything to do with it: unfortunately everyone else for ...

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Governor General's nominees something to be cheris... 19 Nov 2009 16:17 GMT
... inside the gates of Literature.” Note the capital-L. Literature. Lit-er-ah-cha. Hey, she won the Booker Prize. All fall before Alice Munro. Anyway, Munro’s triumphant volume is not so bad, really. ...
Governor General's nominees something to be cherished 19 Nov 2009 16:43 GMT
... inside the gates of Literature.” Note the capital-L. Literature. Lit-er-ah-cha. Hey, she won the Booker Prize. All fall before Alice Munro. Anyway, Munro’s triumphant volume is not so bad, really. ...
Nick Cave and the Bad Sex: up for a rude award 19 Nov 2009 23:12 GMT
... to a roll-call of literary fiction's great and good this year - including the Booker Prize winner John Banville, the acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz, the Goncourt winner Jonathan Littell ...
Three Saudis Listed for Arabic Booker Prize 17 Nov 2009 19:56 GMT
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Public reading by Anne Enright 15 Nov 2009 09:22 GMT
... the British Council’s Biannual Edinburgh Bookcase, will be organising a public reading by Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Anne Enright. The event will be held at the Aula Magna, Old University ...