A group of leading lights from the literary world launch a book prize to counter what they regard as the changing priorities of the Man Booker Prize.
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New book prize to rival Booker
Bookies’ favourite Julian Barnes is among six authors featured on this year’s Man Booker Prize shortlist.
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Barnes heads up Booker shortlist
Now how about that Nobel? Philip Roth won the fourth International Man Booker Prize on Wednesday, beating out 12 other authors. The prize, meant to honor a writer’s body of work as opposed to any individual book, comes with a $100,000 purse. “One of…
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Philip Roth Wins Man Booker Global Prize
US author Philip Roth is announced as the winner of this year’s Man Booker International Prize.
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Booker Prize win for Philip Roth
Organisers of the Booker prize, for which Dame Beryl Bainbridge was shortlisted five times, launch a vote to find her best nominated book.
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Dame Beryl Booker prize launched
The judges of this year’s Man Booker prize are sent electronic book readers for the first time to help them work their way through more than 100 novels.
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Booker prize judges get e-readers
This is not something you hear about every day: Newark Mayor Cory Booker not only helped plow the city out on Monday and Tuesday, he also tweeted about it. Booker took plow suggestions via Twitter, and retweeted citizens’ requests in an effort to draw…
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Newark Mayor Digs Out City Himself
Bloomsbury is to re-print 150,000 copies of Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question after it wins the Man Booker Prize.
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Big print run for Booker winner
We have a winner! In an upset win over a crowded field of candidates, The Man Booker Prize has been awarded to Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question. Jacobson’s novel is a humorous take on Jewishness that follows three friends as they tackle what it…
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Comic Novel Wins Man Booker Prize
The winner of this year’s Man Booker prize will be announced later with Tom McCarthy’s C the 8/15 favourite to win.
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McCarthy favourite to win Booker
Australian author Peter Carey, who has already won the Man Booker prize twice, has made the shortlist for this year’s prize.
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Carey heads up Booker shortlist
This year’s Man Booker longlist is the best-selling since 2001, with Christos Tsiolkas’ The Slap leading the field.
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Slap leads best-selling Bookers
