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...Malika Booker is the 2023 winner of the Forward Prize for Best SinglePoem: Written, for “Libation”....
The Booker-shortlisted Malaysian writer on cats, tardiness and his love of the River Thames
...But in Parisian, word reversal has been so standard for decades, or perhaps centuries, that it’s become a dialect unto itself, known as verlan — a word that itself derives from the reversal of “l’envers”...
...The trial will be held away from the public UK, Shortlist for the Booker Prize announced Switzerland, Trinity, a 67mn-year-old skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex goes up for auction in Zurich....
...Speakers will include Hester Peirce, a commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission, and US senators Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Steve Daines....
...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...But something shifted when I came across the lilac cover of the Booker-nominated Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi last year....
...Speakers include Hester Peirce, a commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission, and US Senators Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Steve Daines....
...Her Regeneration trilogy, exploring the history of the first world war, is considered a masterpiece; the final book in the trilogy, The Ghost Road, won the Booker Prize. She was appointed CBE in 2000....
...Shortlisted for this year’s Booker, A Passage North is an arresting and poignant reflection on the legacy of civil war....
...It had already raked in several awards before the English translation, At Night All Blood Is Black, won the International Booker Prize last week....
...A novel this playful — like an episode of The Twilight Zone co-written by René Descartes and Mel Brooks — would be an unusual contender for the resolutely sober Booker Prize....
...Maaza Mengiste, 49, was shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize for her novel The Shadow King, which draws on women’s experiences of the 1930s war between Ethiopia and Italy....
...Emma Donoghue, 50, is the author of international bestselling novel Room, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes. Her film adaptation was Oscar-nominated....
...Oyinkan Braithwaite, 32, won the 2019 Anthony Award for best first novel for My Sister, the Serial Killer, which was also shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the Booker Prize...
...In which film did Philip Seymour Hoffman play Lancaster Dodd, a religious leader based on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard?...
...Charles L. Turner, an industrial film-maker, shot a group of soldiers idling in New York in 1944, and the result is unspeakably moving....
...The book, which was published in English in 2018, won several awards and was shortlisted for last year’s International Man Booker prize....
...Goldman Sachs to summarise: EBIT (+13.5% YoY growth) and retail cash flow slightly ahead of consensus, helped by delivering Booker synergies one year ahead of guidance....
...One of my very early mentors was Tamsin Mather [professor of earth sciences at the University of Oxford and volcano specialist], a previous L’Oréal fellow as I am now. How physically fit are you?...
...On Wednesday, Senators Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand said for the first time that they agreed....
...How will this year’s Booker panel cope? Perhaps they’ll give the prize to all of them. Dominican writer Rita Indiana made a splash in 2018 with the unclassifiable Tentacle....
...He describes deacons as “priests with L-plates on”. He can distribute the wine and wafers for the Eucharist, but he can’t consecrate them. “You can’t bless anything apart from marriages.”...
...“All the things that were weighing down the P&L have been removed,” said Mr Hester....
...Simon Rogan, 50, opened his first restaurant, L’Enclume, in 2002 in Cartmel, Cumbria. It won its second Michelin star in 2012....
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