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Will Martin Amis Ever Win the Booker Prize?

By Paul WachterJul 28th 2010 – 8:50AM

(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,...

Background on midnights children

Midnight's Children is a 1980 book by Salman Rushdie that deals with India's transition from British colonialism to independence and the partition of India.

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