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...In Fanatic Heart, his approach is fictional, although, as in his Booker Prize-winning Schindler’s Ark, he adheres strictly to the known facts....
...I’ll wager it isn’t Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Milken or Sylvester Stallone....
...The number of nights and experiences booked rose 12 per cent to a record for the final quarter of 98.8mn, with guest demand strong in all regions, “especially among first-time bookers”, Airbnb said....
...Click here for the answers James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”...
...“We are immensely grateful for all of Michael’s contributions....
...His previous novels, The Gift of Rain (2007) and the Booker-shortlisted The Garden of Evening Mists (2012), dealt with the Japanese wartime occupation of Malaya and its aftermath....
...Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton (Granta/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) In 2013, Catton was the youngest ever winner of the Booker Prize with The Luminaries....
...This year’s Booker Prize ceremony was the first held fully in person since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic....
...FICTION JANUARYThe Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez (Virago)Hot on the heels of Michael Cunningham’s Day, fellow American Sigrid Nunez gives us her novelistic take on lockdown life during Covid — albeit in wilder...
...Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann (Granta/New Directions) A clandestine and destructive love affair is at the centre of this novel, set before and after the fall of the Berlin wall...
...The Booker win — the second for a Sri Lankan author following Michael Ondaatje’s 1992 award for The English Patient — and all its attendant media attention has put paid to that....
...Last year’s guests included Booker-winners Bernardine Evaristo and Shehan Karunatilaka and US novelist Gabrielle Zevin....
...Michael Hofmann, a poet and sharp-tongued literary critic, is a prolific translator from German....
...He is modelled on Michael Howard, the then hardline UK home secretary, whose father was also Romanian. “I thought it must be that if you are a European you can’t feel that you’re an immigrant....
...It’s fascinating to compare it with Michael Magee’s Close to Home (Hamish Hamilton £14.99), set in Belfast a generation later....
...Auster’s most recent book was a biography of Stephen Crane; in 2017 his latest novel, the epic 4321, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize....
...Skellig Michael, eight miles off the southwestern coast of Ireland, is now best known as a location in the Star Wars franchise....
...Transfer Market Five months after buying Olympique Lyonnais, John Textor has taken on the day-to-day running of the club, replacing Jean-Michael Aulas, Lyon’s long-time president....
...Cushla and Michael embark on an affair — secret except to a group of Michael’s friends, who treat her, “the token Taig”, with condescension....
...The tactics appear to be working, writes Latin America editor Michael Stott....
...Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann (Granta/New Directions) Available in English for the first time, Kairos is the story of a passionate yet toxic affair set in Berlin during the tail-end...
...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....
...Also, Federal Reserve vice-chair Michael Barr will discuss how to make the financial system safer and fairer at the Brookings Institution, his first public comments since taking the role....
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