Wolf Hall Wins Man Booker Prize
Hilary Mandel has won the Man Booker Prize for her book, Wolf Hall. This is the book the bookies predicted would win.
Posted on October 9, 2009
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Aravind Adiga Wins Booker Prize
Aravind Adiga has won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for fiction for his first novel, The White Tiger. He becomes the fourth debut novelist to win the Booker Prize.
The thirty-three year old novelist was presented the prize at an awards ceremony at Guildhall, London. Adiga becomes the fourth debut novelist, and the second Indian debut novelist, to win the award in the forty year history of the prize. The three other debut novelists to have won the prize are Keri Hulme for her novel The Bone People in 1985, DBC Pierre in 2003 for his novel Vernon God Little and Arundhati Roy in 1997 for The God of Small Things.The Man Booker Prize website has an interview with Adiga here about what life is like after winning the esteemed book prize. He says he is thrilled to have won but that "life goes on as before."
Aravind Adiga's winning novel The White Tiger is decribed as a "compelling, angry and darkly humorous" novel about a man's journey from Indian village life to entrepreneurial success. It was described by one reviewer as an "unadorned portrait" of India seen "from the bottom of the heap".
Posted on October 24, 2008
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Man Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
The Man Booker Prize has announced the shortlist for the award.A novel by Salmon Rushie was absent from the shortlist which many considered a snub.
Posted on September 14, 2008
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2007 Man Booker Prize Longlist
The 2007 Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced. The Man Booker Prize is a UK award for fiction. Here is the 2007 longlist:- Darkmans by Nicola Barker (4th Estate)
- Self Help by Edward Docx (Picador)
- The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)
- The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies (Sceptre)
- Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray)
- Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (Viking)
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)
- What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn (Tindal Street)
- Consolation by Michael Redhill (William Heinemann)
- Animal's People by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster)
- Gift Of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (Myrmidon)
- Winnie & Wolf by A.N.Wilson (Hutchinson)
Posted on September 3, 2007
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Kiran Desai Wins Man Booker Prize
The Guardian reports (thx Book Blog) that Indian-born novelist Kiran Desai has won the Man Booker Prize for her novel, The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton). She is youngest women to win the prize, which includes 50,000 cash prize.
At her first attempt Desai, 35, not only became the youngest woman to win but achieved a victory which repeatedly eluded her mother. The esteemed Indian novelist Anita Desai - to whom The Inheritance of Loss is dedicated - has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker.You can read more about Kiran Desai here on the Man Booker Prize website.
On hearing the result Desai said: "The debt I owe to my mother is so profound that I feel the book is hers as much as mine. It was written in her company and in her wisdom and kindness."
This year's head judge, Hermione Lee, left no doubt that it was "the strength of the book's humanity" which gave it the edge after a long and passionate debate among the judges. "It is a magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness," Professor Lee said. "Her mother will be proud of her."
Posted on October 16, 2006
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Man Booker Prize Long List Selected
ReadersRead.com has posted the long list for the Man Booker Prize. The Times of London says this list was agonized over by judges who started with 112 books.Their books were whittled down from around 112 entries. Some 95 novels were submitted by publishers and 17 were called in by the panel of judges - the poet and novelist Simon Armitage, the novelist Candia McWilliam, the critic Anthony Quinn and the actress Fiona Shaw, chaired by the biographer and academic Hermione Lee.The long list will be narrowed down to six entries on September 14th.
They struggled to make their choice, locking themselves away for more than six hours before they decided. The final two or three names had caused the delay, as the judges found themselves arguing the case for their favourite choices.
Posted on August 18, 2006
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Man Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
ReadersRead.com reports that the 2005 Man Booker Prize shortlist has been announced. The six books on the shortlist are listed below. The winner will be announced on October 10th, 2005.Posted on September 14, 2005
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