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Ha Ha Ha Booker Prize
866 wordsRoddy Doyle is an amazing writer and is seen by his friends as a studious-looking and down-to-earth kind of guy. He is one of the new breed of young Irish artists who came of age in the 1960 s and 1970 s. Roddy Doyle was born in May of 1958 in the northern Dublin suburb of Kilbarrack, Ireland. From Roddy Doyles point of view, he seemed to have had a happy childhood, especially when he told an interviewer, There are memories of my own childhood, running through a field and seeing pheasants fly up...
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Incurable Wounds Of War The English Patient
1,436 wordsIncurable Wounds of war: The English Patient The English Patient won Michael Ondaatje, a Canadian novelist and poet, the 1993 Booker Prize. It is a very rich novel, very stylistically written. May be having read the very first pages somebody will say that this story is boring, others might not understand how one could make a film out of it or even win such a prestigious prize as Booker Prize. But this story draws our attention to the very important issue: war and wounds it can cause. He does not...
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Booker Prize Literary Tradition
736 wordsBooker goes global Provincial, insular, philistine, conservative: these are some of the epithets The Observer has deployed to characterise the British literary establishment. Occasionally, I have wondered if these terms were not shall we say? a trifle exaggerated, a shade unjust. Then along comes the dear old Booker Prize to remind us that, no, such descriptions are, if anything, too generous. The reaction to the new Booker sponsors suggestion that American writers should be eligible for the com...
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Margaret Atwood Handmaids Tale
1,393 words" There is so much silence between the words" SOCI 4019 September 29, 1999. An Overview of Works, Styles, and Themes Margaret Atwood has written a great number of novels and other forms of literature. The major press editions are as follows: ~ WORKS~ Poetry? 1964, The Care Game? 1968, The Animals in That Country? 1970, The Journals of Susanna Moodie? 1970, Procedures for Underground? 1971, Power Politics? 1974, You are Happy? 1978, Selected Poems? 1978, Two-Headed Poems? 1981, True Sto...
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Booker Prize Pulitzer Prize
2,123 wordsPrize fighters You can see what the publicity people at the Man Group, the stockbroking company that now finances what was once the Booker Prize, have been thinking. We have this brand: high recognition, cheap at the price. But isnt it small beer? Hasnt the label been used to mean arty-but-little, elegant-but-genteel? Why not be bolder? Why not make the competition a kind of world title? Think of Wimbledon. Think of the Open Golf Championship. Classy, very British, but also the worlds top events...
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Booker Prize Commonwealth Literary British
413 wordsUS authors entry to Booker prize seen as betrayal The literary establishment sharpened its talons last night as Booker prize judges warned that plans to Americans the prestigious award would cause irreparable damage to a great British tradition. The prize, Britains most sought-after literary award, was last month renamed the Man Booker prize in honour of its sponsor, the Man fund management firm. The sponsor swiftly announced that the 163; 50, 000 award, for Commonwealth writers only, could b...
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