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...The Booker-winner Richard Flanagan felt, he wrote, as though “my soul had been strip mined and I was powerless to stop it”. My own dismay and rage have lasted....
...Last year’s guests included Booker-winners Bernardine Evaristo and Shehan Karunatilaka and US novelist Gabrielle Zevin....
...Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo, Vintage £18.99, 416 pages Franklin Nelson is the FT’s Maisie Hylton Fellow....
...“I’m very grateful that the Booker intervened and I was spared,” he says. “I could pay my mortgage off with the Booker gold and be debt free.”...
...But it doesn’t worry me too much,” said Morgan Entrekin, president of Grove Atlantic, an independent company whose title Shuggie Bain won the 2020 Booker Prize. “It’s a complicated business....
...Think of John F Kennedy (JFK) or Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)....
...On July 2 1932, Franklin D Roosevelt broke with precedent and flew to the Democratic convention in Chicago to accept in person the party’s nomination to be its presidential candidate....
...Lionel Shriver, novelist I especially enjoyed Amy Bloom’s White Houses (Granta, RRP£12.99/Random House, RRP$27), which makes Eleanor and Franklin D Roosevelt into real people....
...In it, the isolationist aviator Charles Lindbergh wins the presidency in 1940, trouncing Franklin Delano Roosevelt....
...The other new names who might run include the first-term senator Kamala Harris from California and Cory Booker from New Jersey....
...“I grew up loving Aretha Franklin and my childhood ambition was to play at my local blues festival in Western Australia,” she says....
...President Franklin Roosevelt was keenly aware of the systemic double standards involved: Europe was facing the biggest threat to the very freedom it wouldn’t consider for other races....
...Every Man Booker prize needs a narrative but 2014 was unusual in being supplied with one long before the judges had even started to narrow down the field....
...From the Man Booker-nominated Darkmans to her tale of golfing in Luton, The Yips, she has carefully avoided both the traditions of genre and the narrative arc....
...The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) won the Ambassador Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker, among others....
...He was also the first president to invite a black intellectual – Booker T Washington – for dinner at the White House. The backlash was vicious....
...Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize and the National Book Award....
...Natalie Whittle ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Crime Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, by Tom Franklin, Macmillan, RRP£7.99 This award-winning crime...
...Last month he was awarded the Man Booker International, a biennial prize for a body of work....
...The Stranger’s Child, by Alan Hollinghurst, Picador, RRP£20, 576 pages Seven years after his Man Booker-winning The Line of Beauty, Hollinghurst has delivered another extraordinary work of fiction....
...19 Which outdoor event in January united the US Marine band, a children’s choir from San Francisco, the queen of soul Aretha Franklin and cellist Yo-Yo Ma?...
...Winner of last year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Australian equivalent of the Booker, Carpentaria is set to captivate readers who will allow themselves to be gently drawn along by its tidal swell...
...John Banville’s ‘The Sea’ won the Man Booker Prize in 2005...
...For a boost to book sales, the highlight of the UK publishing world remains the Man Booker prize. “The Booker makes an incredible difference [to sales]....
...But Cory Booker, the youthful and charismatic black mayor of Newark, New Jersey, is backing Mr Obama, as is Shirley Franklin, Atlanta’s African-American mayor....
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