Hints and tips:
...Last year’s guests included Booker-winners Bernardine Evaristo and Shehan Karunatilaka and US novelist Gabrielle Zevin....
...He lived under armed guard and adopted the alias Joseph Anton. Over the past two decades the winner of the Booker Prize for Midnight’s Children in 1981 had gradually returned to a more normal life....
...INTERVIEWER: You've written novels about-- well, of course, your first great novel that won the Booker Prize, Midnight's Children, and then the Booker of Bookers after 25 years was about India at independence...
...In November it was poet Joseph Fasano’s debut novel The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, a parable about a man’s pursuit of a mountain lion from Platypus Press....
...He lived with armed guards and adopted the alias Joseph Anton....
...Later came writers such as Ben Okri, who became the first black African winner of the Booker Prize in 1991 for his transcendental novel The Famished Road....
...Think of Joseph Conrad, or James Joyce. Had the Polish seafarer and the itinerant Irishman never packed their suitcases, their novels could not have been written....
...Bernadine Evaristo claims to have used positive affirmations and creative visualisation to win the Booker Prize, despite then being “almost invisible” in the literary world....
...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....
...(At the height of his influence, Frank, “cloaked in the aura of a Jewish mystic”, inveigled his way into the good graces of no less than Emperor Joseph II.)...
...Ms Dangarembga, whose book This Mournable Body is on the long list for this year’s Booker literature prize, was released on bail after being detained for joining demonstrations demanding an end to misrule...
...What Nabokov called a “private tragedy”, Yiyun Li — who, like Joseph Conrad, has never written in her native tongue — calls a “private salvation”....
...(FT) Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart has won the 2020 Booker Prize for his debut novel Shuggie Bain....
...Not that being blocked is to blame for every long gap between work: Joseph Heller went 11 years without a book after Catch-22 but said he was just a slow writer....
...His recourse to the grandiose mythic narrative gesture, a tendency that’s marked his work since his breakout second novel Midnight’s Children — winner of the Booker in 1981 and the Booker of Bookers in 2008...
...Mr Buttigieg made a self-effacing joke about serving “under General [Joseph] Dunford in Afghanistan…way under”....
...In 2017 the fan base went steroidal following the television adaptation starring Elisabeth Moss and Joseph Fiennes....
...Letter in response to this article: Scarcity is set to affect a whole generation / From Dr Roger Booker, University College London, UK...
...Every citizen must serve a two-year tour on the Wall as a Defender, and a new arrival, Joseph Kavanagh, acts as our eyes on this bleak, indescribably cold sentence....
...Others in Fox’s finance department have also quietly left the company, including Joseph Senande and Emily Natividad. Mr Senande could not be reached for comment....
...A follow-up, the Man Booker-longlisted The Teleportation Accident, again knowingly combined history (1930s Berlin and Los Angeles) with a staggeringly complex plot....
...The Walworth Beauty, the 14th novel from Booker-shortlisted writer Michèle Roberts, is a tale of absences and hauntings....
...Behind centre, S Joseph, in brown, right, a woman with a basket in a doorway; dark sky and angel with scroll above....
...The Worlds of Joseph Conrad, by Maya Jasanoff, William Collins, RRP£25 A window into the world at the dawn of the 20th century through the life and work of a great novelist....
...The action is the first stage in an opposition campaign to increase pressure on President Joseph Kabila after he failed to honour a December 31 agreement to appoint a transitional government and prepare...
International Edition