Flanagan on Booker Prize longlist
Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage) is among the 13 titles longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize.The full longlist is: To Rise Again at a...
Man Booker 2011 longlist announced
The titles longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize have been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes, Jonathan Cape)On Canaan's Side (Sebastian Barry, Faber)Jamrach's Menagerie (Carol Birch,...
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White, Hazzard make ‘Lost' Booker shortlistVivisector by Patrick White and The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard are among the titles shortlisted for the ‘Lost' Man Booker Prize, a one-off...
White, Hazzard in running for ‘Lost’ Man Booker Prize
Novels by Australian authors Patrick White and Shirley Hazzard are among those in the running for a new Man Booker Prize. The Lost Man Booker Prize, announced on 1 February, is...
Coetzee shortlisted for third Booker
Summertime by Australian author J M Coetzee (Knopf) has been shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The full shortlist is: The Children's Book (A S Byatt, Chatto &...
‘The White Tiger’ wins 2008 Man Booker Prize
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic) has been named the winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Adiga, who was born in Chennai, India, was raised partly...
Toltz on Booker shortlist
Australian author Steve Toltz has been shortlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize for his novel A Fraction of the Whole (Hamish Hamilton). Toltz is joined on the shortlist by...
De Kretser, Toltz on Booker longlist
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser (A&U) and A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz (Hamish Hamilton) are among the titles longlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize....
‘Midnight’s Children’ named ‘best of the Booker’
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Vintage) has been named the winner of a public poll to determine the ‘Best of the Booker'. Rushdie's novel beat Booker-winning novels by Australian authors...
Carey, Coetzee among the ‘Best of the Booker’
The public now has a chance to vote for ‘The Best of the Booker' after the shortlist for the one-off celebratory award was released on Monday 12 May. Overlooking the...
Best of the Booker
The organisers of the Man Booker Prize have announced that a one-off Best of the Booker award will be presented this year to ‘the best novel to have won the...
Enright wins Man Booker
The Gathering by Irish author Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape) has won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, beating New Zealand hope Lloyd Jones whose Mister Pip (Text) was the shortlist favourite....
‘Mister Pip’ tipped for Booker as shortlist released
Mister Pip�by New Zealander Lloyd Jones (Text/Penguin NZ) is one of six titles on the shortlist for the 2007 Man Booker Prize.The other shortlisted titles are:Darkmans�(Nicola Barker, Fourth Estate) The...
‘Mr Pip’ on Booker longlist
Mr Pip by New Zealand author Lloyd Jones (Text Australia/Penguin NZ) has been named as one of 13 titles on the longlist for this year's Man Booker Prize.This longlist was chosen...
Peter Carey on Man Booker International list
As announced in a WBN Special Bulletin last week, Peter Carey is among the 15 authors on the judges' list of contenders for the second Man Booker International Prize. The...
Carey named on Man Booker International contenders’ list
Peter Carey is among the 15 authors on the judges' list of contenders for the second Man Booker International Prize. The judges' list was announced by the chair of judges,...
Jose to judge new Man Asian prize
Australian author Nicholas Jose has been chosen as a judge of the new Man Asian Literary Prize, along with US-based writer Andre Aciman and former Canadian governor-general Adrienne Clarkson. The...
Desai wins Man Booker
The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton) by Indian-born writer Kiran Desai has won the 2006 Man Booker Prize, announced in the UK this morning. Desai, whose mother Anita Desai has...
Grenville and Hyland on Booker shortlist
As first annnounced in a WBN Special Bulletin last Friday, Australian authors M J Hyland and Kate Grenville have made the shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize. Click here for...
Hyland and Grenville on Booker shortlist
Australian authors M J Hyland and Kate Grenville have made the shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize. Hyland's Carry Me down and Grenville's The Secret River (both Text) have been announced...