Booker Prize 2023: Ireland's Paul Lynch wins with Prophet Song
BBC News· 3 days agoThe dystopian novel depicting an Ireland slipping into totalitarianism bags the prestigious award.
Winner of the Booker Prize for fiction set to be announced in London
Merced Sun-Star· 3 days agoThe winner of the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction will be announced on Sunday. If bookmakers are right, the victorious writer will be named Paul. Three of the six books competing for the ...
Russell Norman, restaurateur behind Polpo who blazed a trail with small plates and no reservations –...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 days agoRussell Norman, who has died suddenly aged 57, was an Italophile restaurateur who gained a...
Camilla ‘makes reading sexy’, says Ben Okri as Queen hosts Booker Prize event
The Independent UK via AOL· 1 day agoPrize is the world’s most influential prize for a single work of fiction. The prize recognises...
Queen makes reading sexy, says former Booker Prize winner
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoQueen Camilla was praised for making reading “sexy” as she hosted authors shortlisted for the Booker...
Paul Lynch, Irish author of 'Prophet Song,' awarded over $60K with 2023 Booker Prize
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 days agoPrevious winners include Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and Hilary Mantel. Four Irish...
Who cares what Napoleon gets wrong? Facts are the enemy of great art
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe Frogs have been getting uppity over Joaquin Phoenix’s depiction of Napoleon, in Ridley Scott’s...
Irish writer Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize with dystopian novel 'Prophet Song'
Euronews via Yahoo News· 2 days agoFounded in 1969, the Booker Prize is open to English-language novels from any country published in...
Holbein at the Tudor Court review
The Week· 5 days agoWhen we visualise the court of Henry VIII, it is probably a picture by Hans Holbein that springs to mind, said Melanie McDonagh in the Evening Standard. Born in Augsburg in 1497, Holbein spent ...
UK Booker Prize Set To Name First-time Winner
International Business Times· 4 days agoThe prize is one of the world's top literary awards and has propelled to fame countless household names, including past winners Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Hilary ...