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...Last year’s guests included Booker-winners Bernardine Evaristo and Shehan Karunatilaka and US novelist Gabrielle Zevin....
...This year’s recently announced Booker longlist elicited widespread praise for its variety and daring, and provides much for the keen audio listener....
...handing over of the baton, as does the substitution of Snow’s ubiquitous references to Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie with more characteristically Banvillean allusions to WB Yeats, Franz Kafka and Samuel...
...in that work, and continued to plumb the pain of exile in the books that followed: The Namesake (2003), Unaccustomed Earth (2008) and The Lowland (2013), the latter of which was shortlisted for the Man Booker...
...Last year, BuzzFeed reported that United We Win, a Democratic Super PAC, had offered influencers and bloggers money to produce content in support of New Jersey senator Cory Booker....
...Inspired by Samuel Beckett, she is interested in exposing absurdities. Her 2014 novella Fever Dream imagined a soul’s transmigration in the wake of pesticide poisoning....
...In the looping sequence of rooms below Unseld’s study, where he used to play chess with Samuel Beckett (one leading US literary agent is said to have requested a moment on his own to sit in the chair used...
...In 1804, a 32-year-old Samuel Taylor Coleridge complained in his notebook that he had written nothing of note for 12 months; the poetry that made his name was from his mid-twenties....
...It’s pulled off with delightful, self-deprecatory playfulness by Wade and delivered, in Samuel West’s staging, with real brio....
...McCrum had been at Faber for less than a year when he approached Peter Carey and Kazuo Ishiguro, the former going on to win the Booker Prize twice, and the latter winning the Booker and the Nobel....
...Levy was a trailblazer, following in the footsteps of Samuel Selvon, who wrote about the ‘Lonely Londoners’ of the 1950s, and paving the way for contemporary authors from Zadie Smith to Reni Eddo-Lodge who...
...“Some people in the City wanted Archie Norman as chairman, but the partnership with John Allan has worked well,” said Samuel Johar, chairman of advisers Buchanan Harvey....
...As the story is told in Michael Hiltzik’s excellent The New Deal: A Modern History, FDR’s speech writer, Samuel Rosenman, had scrawled the phrase on a scrap of paper the day before without giving it much...
...Edugyan made her soaring reputation early, with The Second Life of Samuel Tyne and the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner, Half-Blood Blues....
...Samuel Hartzmark at the University of Chicago and Yale University’s Kelly Shue have discovered a pattern in investors’ reactions to earnings news....
...Eat the Buddha, by Barbara Demick, Granta, RRP£14.99/Spiegel & Grau, RRP$28 (Sept) A portrait of Tibet by the author of the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea....
...The most recent recruit is Booker-prize-winning novelist Marlon James, who is currently penning an epic fantasy trilogy he describes as an “African Game of Thrones”....
...On finishing his studies and having married an Englishwoman, Michelene Samuels, Victor settled in London to forge a career in publishing....
...In the 1980s, Phillips’ sitters included Samuel Beckett, Iris Murdoch and his one-time student Brian Eno....
...He will eventually win the prize in 1998 for Amsterdam. 1996 The Orange Prize (now the Bailey’s Prize) for fiction by women is launched, and won by Helen Dunmore for A Spell of Winter. 1999 The Samuel...
...He served on the jury panel for the 2014 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction. Kite joined the FT in 2000 after a period working in publishing....
...Toby Mundy, the literary agent and executive director of the Samuel Johnson Prize, pointed to the success of the Man Booker in increasing its global influence....
...Hot Milk, by Deborah Levy, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99 A new novel by the author of the Man Booker-shortlisted Swimming Home....
...Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize....
...He won the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for his novel The Sea. In 2011 he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize (another reason he is fond of Prague)....
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