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...Jennifer Croft, as it happens, is well-placed to imagine: she has translated, among others, Olga Tokarczuk, a very real Nobel Prize-winning Polish author (the pair shared 2018’s International Booker)....
...Powerful Menendez colleagues, including New Jersey’s other US senator, Cory Booker, have called for him to resign his seat in Congress....
...Meanwhile, the military jailed writers and journalists such as Akin Adesokan, Nnimmo Bassey, Kunle Ajibade and Chris Anyanwu....
...Chris Murphy, the Democratic senator for Connecticut, said it was “inconceivable” that the US had not passed significant legislation to address gun violence....
...Is it like the Booker for business books? I feel like it is. Andrew HillIt is really and it’s international. It started in 2005....
...In March, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars for insulting his wife Jada about her alopecia. The internet spent a relentless cycle on whether that was or was not messed up....
...Final thought If you’re looking for a good read, dip into our guide to this year’s Booker Prize....
...The political scientist Chris Armstrong makes the case for a new policy approach to the world’s oceans in A Blue New Deal (Yale, February)....
...Who won the 2017 Man Booker prize with Lincoln in the Bardo? Click here for the answers...
...He had travelled a long way from Port Elizabeth, first knocking around with fellow saxophonists Nikele Moyake and Kippie Moeketsi, and then joining the Blue Notes with pianist Chris McGregor....
...Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor and presidential candidate, was the biggest Republican recipient of donations from Facebook employees, with more than $50,000 in contributions....
...Additional reporting by Claer Barrett, Andy Bounds, James Pickford, Josephine Cumbo and Chris Tighe...
...“He wants to put this to bed sooner rather than later, for fear of something else coming out,” said Chris Krueger, an analyst at Cowen Washington Research Group....
...On Thursday, Chris Christie, the former Republican governor of New Jersey, called Mr Booker a “friend” and a “talented, smart, articulate” politician whom he praised for being “tough on crime” during his...
...Man Group, the listed hedge fund manager, was attacked by some authors as an unsuitable backer of the Booker Prize Foundation....
...Author Chris Goodall is an advocate for electric vehicles and an angel investor in the green economy....
...‘You’ve never heard a voice like this before’ The 50th Man Booker Prize for fiction has been awarded to Anna Burns for her third novel Milkman, a challenging story of sexual predation during the Troubles...
...(FT) FT book reviews Read our critics’ reviews of this year’s shortlist for the Man Booker Prize: The Long Take, Milkman, Washington Black, Everything Under, The Mars Room and The Overstory....
...(Golf Digest) Women writers dominate Man Booker shortlist Four of the six writers announced for the annual book prize are women, all writing on contemporary malaise or anxiety....
...The publisher also did well from Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, a 1992 novel that won the “Booker of Bookers”, during the period, and Kitchen Confidential, the best-seller from Anthony Bourdain,...
...Over the years I have interviewed, chaired, reviewed, or in other forms written about Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Hannah Berry, Seth, Keiji Nakazawa, Adrian Tomine, Grant...
...But third-quarter sales at wholesaler Booker rose by a staggering 10.7 per cent, excluding tobacco, and by 8.2 per cent over Christmas....
...Its takeover of UK wholesaler Booker Group is also on track, after receiving clearance from competition regulators....
...Chris Dillow: Even worse than feared The UK’s trade performance since the vote to leave the EU has been even worse than we pessimists expected....
...Hold: Booker (BOK) We doubted how well Booker’s shareholders would fare in the Tesco tie-up, but as more details emerge it becomes clear how powerful the newly-enlarged group could be, writes Harriet Russell...
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