Big Dumb Object (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
The Man Booker Prize is probably the biggest literary award in the UK and the BBC has an interesting article about it: Martyn Goff, who ran the award for 35 years, says the key is literary tourism - taking the...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Readers reward horrible histories THE post-apocalyptic seems to be all the rage with readers of novels and short stories, both highbrow and low. On July 10th an international readers' poll voted "Midnight's Children" the best novel ever to win the Man Booker prize, which celebrates its 40th birthday this year. In the same week, Henrietta Rose-Innes (pictured right), a 36-year-old South African writer,...
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Earlier today in London it was announced that Salman Rushdie’s 1981 novel “Midnight’s Children” was the winner of the Best of the Booker Award, a sort of “best of the best” category spinning off from the Man Booker Prize.
51stories (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Moshin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (This book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007). This was one of the books I took with me on holiday but did not manage to read. However, once I picked it up on Sunday I could not put it down, I had to read till the end, even if in [...]
Buzz Girl (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
D.S. will be on maternity leave this summer. Scott M. will take over while she’s gone. Coming in September 2008 Yesterday's Weather by Anne Enright. A new collection of short stories by the winner of the Man Booker Prize. Coming in October 2008 Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart by Tim Butcher. The story of Butcher’s trip in Africa retracing Stanley’s 1874 expedition to map the
MetaxuCafe Litblog Network (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
James Meek’s last book, The People’s Act of Love won the 2006 Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award, the 2006 Ondaatje Prize and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. James has worked as a journalist since 1985 and his reporting from Iraq and about Guantánamo Bay won a number of British and international awards. In 2001 he reported for the Guardian Newspaper on the war against the Taliban...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
"Rose Tremain is one of Britain's most celebrated authors and yet her latest novel, the recipient of rave reviews, was not even longlisted for the Man Booker prize. So... it was a case of patience rewarded when she won the £30,000 Orange Broadband prize for fiction with The Road Home."...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Overlooked for the Man Booker prize, the author of The Road Home wins the £30,000 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
ReadingYA: Readers' Rants (Free subscription) | 30/05/2008
Ever since working on my very first novel manuscript--a mystery with a historical component concerning World War II Wales--I've been particularly fascinated with novels set during that period. The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies--nominated for the Man Booker prize--actually does take place in WWII Wales, so of course I had to give it a whirl. While not a YA book per se, two of the viewpoint characters...
The Media Mob (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
The Man Booker Prize judges want YOU to vote for your favorite novel! The shortlist for Best of the Booker, a one-off celebratory award to mark the 40th anniversary of the Booker Prize, was announced today. Biographer, novelist, critic and selection chair Victoria Glendinning, writer and broadcaster Mariella Frostrup, and John Mullan, professor of English at University College in London chose the...
Big Dumb Object (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
The Telegraph compares the Arthur C. Clarke award and the Man Booker Prize: One obvious distinction between the Arthur C Clarke Award, for the best science fiction novel published in Britain the previous year, and the Man Booker is...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
To celebrate 40 years of the Man Booker literary prize, a shortlist of six past winners has been drawn up, from which one will be picked by the public for a Best of the Booker award.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
An award-winning poet and a Man Booker Prize contender are up for the UK's oldest literary award.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
AN award-winning poet, a best-selling American author and a Man Booker Prize contender are in the running for a prestigious Edinburgh book prize.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
An award-winning poet, a best-selling American author and a Man Booker Prize contender are on the shortlist for Britain's oldest literary award, it was announced today.
