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...Cue Gillian Anderson as star interviewer Emily Maitlis, regal with a whippet. But again, the focus doesn’t fall where you might think....
...After taking a look at Emily Dickinson's Poem #269 ("Wild Nights - wild nights!")...
...Emily Perkins’ previous novel, The Forrests, was longlisted for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and her work for stage and screen includes co-writing the film adaptation of fellow New Zealander and Booker-winner...
...Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) The winner of this year’s International Booker Prize — the first Bulgarian novel to bag the award — is a warning about...
...Readers of the South Korean writer’s 2016 International Booker Prize-winning novel, The Vegetarian (2007), will surely be reminded of its inward-turning, defiant central character....
...Additional contributions by Tee Zhuo and Emily Goldberg...
...Books The Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize for his genre-defying second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida....
...Books The 2022 Booker Prize shortlist, announced this week, showcases novels based on real-life events, from Robert Mugabe’s dictatorship to the Magdalene Laundries abuses....
...Heart-wrenching but brimming with life, Tomb of Sand won the International Booker Prize, and is a lasting joy....
...The title of the book is taken from a first line by Emily Dickinson: “Our share of night to bear —”. Enríquez was drawn to the universality of the poem: we will all encounter darkness....
...Books This year’s six-strong Booker Prize shortlist was announced yesterday and includes debut novelist Patricia Lockwood for her satire on social media, No One Is Talking About This, and Damon Galgut’s...
...(FT) Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart has won the 2020 Booker Prize for his debut novel Shuggie Bain....
...(FT) Podcast of the day Culture Call Maaza Mengiste, author of the Booker-shortlisted The Shadow King, talks to Culture Call podcast host Lilah Raptopoulos about collective memory, women warriors, decolonising...
...The literary world’s attention is sure to home in on Young Mungo (Picador, April), a tale of forbidden love set in working-class Glasgow, and the much-anticipated second novel from the 2020 Booker Prize...
...But the Booker has never been wholly British nor a stranger to controversy, Frederick Studemann writes....
...(FT, WSJ) Morgan Stanley accused of racial bias Marilyn Booker, Morgan Stanley’s former head of diversity, is suing the bank and its chief executive, alleging “race and gender discrimination, retaliation...
...(FT) Morgan Stanley’s former head of diversity sues over racial bias Marilyn Booker, who headed diversity at Morgan Stanley from 1994 to 2010, has sued the bank and its chief executive James Gorman over...
...This weekend she is headlining the Hay Festival Digital, but our meeting is pre-lockdown, shortly after her most recent novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, was shortlisted for last year’s Booker...
...This year’s Booker Prize-winning novel Shuggie Bain, a debut by Douglas Stuart, had been rejected 32 times by US publishers because they were unsure if his story about a working-class boy in 1980s Glasgow...
...(FT) Booker backs Biden Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey endorsed former vice-president Joe Biden for president on Monday....
...Evidence of the fraying of relations between the two New England senators came as Cory Booker, New Jersey senator, dropped his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination....
...FT Seasonal Appeal This Christmas, the FT commissioned Booker Prize winner Ben Okri to write a children’s short story....
...Joshua Wong, the Hong Kong activist, and joint Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood also made the short list. Who was your person on the year? Vote in our end-of-year poll....
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