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24 May 2013
Weekly Roundup: Lydia Davis, sentence-long author
Press reaction to a prize is always interesting to watch. The reporting of Lydia Davis winning the Man Booker International Prize this week has been no exception.
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17 May 2013
Weekly Roundup: various victories of past Man Booker authors
Another first for Hilary Mantel (the words almost speak themselves by now). This week she sat astride the Official UK Top 50 bestseller list for the first time in her career when sales of the new paperback edition of Bring Up the Bodies hit 20,493 in its opening week of sales.
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10 May 2013
Weekly Roundup: William Boyd has his say on literary prizes
In a salutary piece on the book trade website BookBrunch, Ed Handyside, the publishing director of Myrmidon Books, gave an insight into the effect a Man Booker nominated title can have on the well-being of a publishing house.
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03 May 2013
Weekly Roundup: The double lives of your favourite writers
What do writers do when they're not writing? Andrew O'Hagan, a Man Booker shortlistee in 1999, asked a group of his peers about their favourite “second artform”.
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26 Apr 2013
Weekly Roundup: What does Hilary Mantel have in common with Beyoncé?
It's official, Hilary Mantel is more than just a writer. The serial Man Booker winner has just been named by Time magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential people.
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19 Apr 2013
Weekly Roundup: Prizes, prizes and more prizes
It has been a bewilderingly busy week for anyone who follows literary prizes.
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15 Apr 2013
The Man Booker International Prize and translation
With only five weeks to go until the winner of this year's Man Booker International prize is announced we look at fiction in translation.
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12 Apr 2013
Weekly Roundup: Is the literary world dominated by men and the merits of book prizes
Elizabeth Jane Howard, a Man Booker judge in 1974, has just turned 90 and celebrated by handing in the manuscript for volume five of her lauded Cazalet Chronicles series. She is a formidable woman (as the former wife of Kingsley Amis she'd need to be) but told an interviewer for the Observer that she nevertheless feels the literary world is dominated by men.
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05 Apr 2013
Weekly Roundup: Oscars, Bollinger and forbidden sex
A footnote to the sad death of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala who, as many obituaries have pointed out, held the unique distinction of winning both the Man Booker Prize and an Oscar (two in her case – the same number as Elizabeth Taylor – for her screenplays for A Room with a View and Howard's End).
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04 Apr 2013
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, award winning novelist and screenwriter, dies at 85
Award winning novelist and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has died in at home in New York aged 85.
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