Any moment now word will come through from the UK… The winner of the Man Booker Prize for 2011 is… I have read only one of the contenders… shame on me … (I blame Murakami – 1Q84 is enormous and has monopolised all of my reading time) but that one contender was one of the [...]
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This is the part of the story where I reveal that I have been reading the poetry of Tomas Tranströmer for years and entirely concur with The Swedish Academy’s reasoning behind awarding him the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2011 >> “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality”. Obviously. Ummmm… [...]
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Two first time novelists make shortlist of six 6 September 2011 Julian Barnes, Carol Birch, Patrick deWitt, Esi Edugyan, Stephen Kelman and A.D. Miller are today, Tuesday 6 September, announced as the six shortlisted authors for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The judges’ selection includes two first time novelists – Stephen Kelman and [...]
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This year’s Man Booker Prize longlist is an interesting and surprising selection of established and emerging writers. I have to admit that at first the 2011 Man Booker Prize longlist left me a little cold. I recognised a few of the names on the list but many of them were completely unfamiliar. Then I cast [...]
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