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...Malika Booker is the 2023 winner of the Forward Prize for Best SinglePoem: Written, for “Libation”....
...Click here for the answers James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”...
...She is ostracised by her roommates for having “too much stuff”; her sense of isolation, of feeling “insecure about things she’d never thought twice about”, is almost unbearable to read....
...I’d been faced with my own party clothing dilemma not long before Lynch picked up his prize....
...Fred Studemann I’d second that. Lilah RaptopoulosYeah....
...We memorised trivia on the Oscars, Nobels and Booker prizes; I even learnt the Latin for turkey....
...Holroyd was inspired to set up OnSide in his early 40s after selling his food services company Holroyd Meek to the distribution giant Booker....
...Georgi, I’d love to know what’s important to you about the translation process....
...A new documentary co-directed by the cinema’s former booker Jane Giles and then-teenage habitué Ali Catterall, Scala!!!, celebrates its legacy....
...I’d like to believe there is. On the other hand, there are a number of people I have no desire to meet again, in this life or the next....
...Others may similarly choose to let the Booker Prize, or Radio 3’s record review, do a similar job of separating sheep from goats....
...I’m a fan of his sparse prose and particularly loved his 1999 Booker prize winner Disgrace, but had been less sold on some of his more recent fiction....
...“I doubted if there’d be much sailing in my future,” he reflects from his wheelchair while watching boats on Lake Union....
...Having seen Tremain reading from her work on several occasions, I’d say McDowell is strikingly close to the author’s own intonation and intention....
...“I could never imagine that this crazy thing would happen and that I’d have the courage to say yes, let’s do this.”...
...I’d encourage you to step back in time 10 years and read Henry Mance’s eulogy to Who-ology, which is as true today about this remarkable brand as it was back then....
...“A mathematician is asked if he’d rather have a cold coffee or meet God. He says he’ll have the cold coffee,” reports a character in this novel. Why?...
...While writing at his flat in a converted Victorian terrace in Finsbury Park, north London, the Booker Prize-longlisted author Ned Beauman wears comfortable, functional clothes and admits to being a “Merino...
...David Diop, a French novelist of Senegalese origin who won the International Booker Prize in 2021 for his novel At Night All Blood is Black (originally published in French as Frère d’âme), about Senegalese...
...They’d been in the same year at Parson’s. Lonely, angry, snarling and young, tired of their parents and their parents’ Old-World anxieties. They’d been so beautiful, the two of them....
...In reality, having tête-à-têtes with literary giants and casually landing plum jobs (Motion was an editor at Chatto & Windus where he worked with Booker Prize winners) was probably more complicated than...
...The author was previously Booker Prize-shortlisted for his “off-kilter picaresque Western” The Sisters Brothers (2011) — which has been filmed — as has his most recent, darkly comic novel, French Exit (2018...
...It had “Booker” written on the side of it. An hour later, I had a call telling me that The Famished Road had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize....
...Once he’d started university, he would enter the classroom to find pictures of cannibals chalked on the board....
...Booker-winning novelist and poet Ben Okri and outgoing FT Weekend editor Alec Russell meet in the studio on Alec’s last day in the role....
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