Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Booker Prize
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The renowned and coveted 2009 Booker Prize is being announced tonight. The U.K.’s prestigious Man Booker Prize is conferred (nearly) every year to a work of fiction written by an author from a Commonwealth nation (i.e., Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, etc.). The $80,000 award is amazing in the literary world where large incomes are rare indeed. Anyway, here is the this year's short list plus a review or two:
- Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel - a novel about Henry VIII’s close adviser Thomas Cromwell
- The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt (1991 Booker winner for "Possession")
- Summertime by J.M. Coetzee (1983 Booker winner for "Life and Times of Michael K" and 1999 Booker winner for "Disgrace")
- The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
- The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
- The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Extra, extra, read all about it . . . Hillary Mantel's Wolf Hall has won the 2009 Man Booker Prize. Here is the announcement. And here is an excerpt. More on all this, anon.
- Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel - a novel about Henry VIII’s close adviser Thomas Cromwell
- The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt (1991 Booker winner for "Possession")
- Summertime by J.M. Coetzee (1983 Booker winner for "Life and Times of Michael K" and 1999 Booker winner for "Disgrace")
- The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
- The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
- The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Extra, extra, read all about it . . . Hillary Mantel's Wolf Hall has won the 2009 Man Booker Prize. Here is the announcement. And here is an excerpt. More on all this, anon.
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