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...As a young child, she says, she would pretend she didn’t know how to read, “because the horror of being able to read at an early age in South Africa was that you would read signs like ‘this bench is reserved...
...When he says, “I feel we’ve taken a wrong turn at some point and it’s too late now and we can’t get back to the right path,” he doesn’t mean just his family, but “the whole world [ . . . ] Everything....
...In Fanatic Heart, his approach is fictional, although, as in his Booker Prize-winning Schindler’s Ark, he adheres strictly to the known facts....
...Which long-running MTV reality show features groups of young people in the north-east of England? Click here for the answers James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”...
...Click here for the answers James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”...
...But I can’t help feeling that Come and Get It, like Kennedy’s dorm room, simply contains “too much stuff”....
...Morgan Entrekin, chief executive of Grove Atlantic, the publisher behind last year’s Booker prize-winner, Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song, agrees. “The boom in [romantasy] has been amazing,” he says....
...Claire Keegan credits readers with the phenomenal success of her short novel Small Things Like These, shortlisted for the Booker and other prizes and now a film....
...“We have now found the size where we can grow independently, so we don’t need a merger,” Boone said....
...“I think I became a writer to stay sane,” the Swedish author Sara Stridsberg noted in an interview in 2019, adding, “Or maybe because you don’t have to be sane when you’re a writer.”...
...Moshfegh isn’t a vintage dealer anymore but she still thinks like one....
...“People haven’t felt this proud to be Bulgarian since they beat Germany in the quarter-finals of the World Cup in 1994,” Rodel says....
...We memorised trivia on the Oscars, Nobels and Booker prizes; I even learnt the Latin for turkey....
...But I have to say, I’ve come with a list of recommendations, none of which I don’t think appeared on the Booker shortlist....
...“If you don’t wear the shoe,” he says, describing the way the leather is intended to erode and peel away, “it doesn’t tell the story.”...
...“I know what goes on behind the scenes and I worked so hard when I was young that I don’t feel like I have to be working every single day of my life.”...
...I was born in 1974, remember as a very young child I’m dancing to the Bee Gees, to Saturday Night Fever. And it’s very, you know, associated with the ‘70s in the west and in the US....
...In an interview in 2018 with the FT he acknowledged: “You don’t read my books for the plots. But it’s not because I want to be a difficult writer. I’ve never tried to write in a complicated way....
...This genie isn’t going back in the bottle....
...A recent survey conducted by Nielsen for the Booker Prize Foundation highlighted that readers of translated fiction in the UK are significantly younger than expected....
...In Emma Donoghue’s bestselling, Booker-shortlisted novel Room (2010) — which she successfully adapted into an Oscar-nominated film — a young woman is kept captive and sexually assaulted for years yet manages...
...As a young adult, King borrowed money from Farris to buy an engagement ring for then-girlfriend Coretta Scott....
...Han’s protagonist isn’t convinced, however. “No,” she writes emphatically on a slip of paper. “It isn’t that simple.”...
...Wild Houses by Colin Barrett (Jonathan Cape)Ever since Barrett’s short-story collection Young Skins appeared in 2014, the publishing world has been awaiting his novel....
...A section on “cultural nationalisms” ranges through a depiction of a Hopi corn dance, posters for the National Park Service, Charles White’s double portrait of “Sojourner Truth and Booker T Washington” —...
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