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Will Martin Amis Ever Win the Booker Prize?

(July 28) -- Another year, another Man Booker prize long-list, and another one without Martin Amis. Bestowed to international novelists from the British Commonwealth and Ireland, the Booker Prize is the second most prestigious literary award outside of the U.S. (the Nobel Prize for Literature being the most coveted,...

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The Book We're Talking About This Week

A museum conservator in London learns of the death of her secret lover, and has a breakdown as a result.

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Man Booker Prize Longlist Announced

The Man Booker Longlist was announced today, and the books offer a surprising variety, from past award-winners to first-time authors, such as Stephen Kelman.

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10/18/11 Russia-UK: new chapter of Booker Prizes Source: Voice of Russia Fates of the Russian Booker Prize and the British Man Booker Prize have become the central suspense of this fall.
10/13/11 Trewin slams "tosh" from Literature Prize Source: The Bookseller Ion Trewin, administrator of the Man Booker Prize, has hit back at the new Literature Prize over claims by its advisory board that the Man Booker no longer offers a selection of novels "unsurpassed in their quality and ambition".
09/07/11 the Man Group Source: Bookslut Want to find out more about the Man Booker Prize?
02/12/11 And the prize for the most literary prizes goes to. . . Source: Irish Newspaper Aren't there enough literary prizes in the world?

Background on booker prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.

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