"this trend in 2005 when his novel ""The Sea"" was selected as a surprise winner: Boyd Tonkin, literary editor of ""The Independent"", famously condemned it as ""possibly the most perverse decision in the history of the award"" and rival novelist Tibor Fischer poured scorn on Banville's victory. Kiran Desai of India won in 2006. Anne Enright's 2007 victory came about due to a jury badly split over Ian McEwan's novel ""On Chesil Beach"". The following year it was India's turn again, with Aravind Adiga narrowly defeating Enright's fellow Irishman Sebastian Barry. Historically, the winner of the Man Booker Prize had"
"(1997) was adapted into an eponymous film. He won the Man Booker Prize with ""Amsterdam"" (1998). His following novel, ""Atonement"" (2001), garnered acclaim and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. This was followed by ""Saturday"" (2005), ""On Chesil Beach"" (2007), ""Solar"" (2010), ""Sweet Tooth"" (2012), ""The Children Act"" (2014), and ""Nutshell"" (2016). In 2011, he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize. McEwan was born in Aldershot, Hampshire, on 21 June 1948, the son of David McEwan and Rose Lilian Violet (née Moore). His father was a working-class Scotsman who had worked his way up through"
"""The Cement Garden"" (1978) and ""Enduring Love"" (1997), which was made into a film. In 1998 McEwan won the Man Booker Prize with ""Amsterdam"", while ""Atonement"" (2001) was made into an Oscar-winning film. McEwan was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 2011. Zadie Smith's (born 1975) Whitbread Book Award winning novel ""White Teeth"" (2000), mixes pathos and humour, focusing on the later lives of two war time friends in London. Julian Barnes (born 1946) is another successful living novelist, who won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his book ""The Sense of an Ending"", while three of his earlier books had"
"(1978) and ""Enduring Love"" (1997), which was made into a film. In 1998 McEwan won the Man Booker Prize with ""Amsterdam"". ""Atonement"" (2001) was made into an Oscar-winning film. McEwan was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 2011. Zadie Smith's Whitbread Book Award winning novel ""White Teeth"" (2000), mixes pathos and humour, focusing on the later lives of two war time friends in London. Julian Barnes (born 1946) is another successful living novelist, who won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his book ""The Sense of an Ending"", while three of his earlier books were shortlisted for the Booker Prize: ""Flaubert's"
"""Enduring Love"", about the relationship between a science writer and a stalker, was popular with critics, although it was not shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was adapted into a film in 2004. In 1998, he won the Man Booker Prize for ""Amsterdam"". His next novel, ""Atonement"" (2001), received considerable acclaim; ""Time"" magazine named it the best novel of 2002, and it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2007, the critically acclaimed movie ""Atonement"", directed by Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, was released in cinemas worldwide. His next work, ""Saturday"" (2005), follows an especially eventful"
"was previously published as a short story under the same title in the ""New Yorker"" in 2016 - is to be published to mark McEwan's 70th birthday in June 2018. McEwan has been nominated for the Man Booker prize six times to date, winning the Prize for ""Amsterdam"" in 1998. His other nominations were for ""The Comfort of Strangers"" (1981, Shortlisted), ""Black Dogs"" (1992, Shortlisted), ""Atonement"" (2001, Shortlisted), ""Saturday"" (2005, Longlisted), and ""On Chesil Beach"" (2007, Shortlisted). McEwan also received nominations for the Man Booker International Prize in 2005 and 2007. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of"
"3. ""Children of the Dusk"" (1997) Bram Stoker Award winner ""The Madagascar Manifesto"" (omnibus) (2002) (with George Guthridge) Janet Berliner Janet Berliner, formerly Janet Gluckman (September 24, 1939 – October 24, 2012), was a Bram Stoker Award-winning author and served as president of the Horror Writers Association from 1997 to 1998. She was also a member of Authors Guild, the International Thriller Writers, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. She was born in Cape Town, South Africa, but moved to America with her husband in 1960. She became a citizen of the United States in 1966, and"
"""If I hadn't had an operation, in a couple of years from now I wouldn't have been able to open my eyes at all,"" he said. Since 2000, Rushdie has ""lived mostly near Union Square"" in New York City. He is a fan of the English football club Tottenham Hotspur. Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, ""Midnight's Children"" (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be ""the best novel of all winners"" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th"
"""What the Family Needed"" International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, longlist The Age Book of the Year, shortlist Encore Award, shortlist Prime Minister's Literary Awards, longlist ALS Gold Medal, longlist ""Things We Didn't See Coming"" The Age Book of the Year, Fiction Book of the Year, winner The Guardian First Book Award, longlist New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for New Fiction, shortlist Steven Amsterdam Steven Amsterdam (born in New York City on January 31, 1966) is an American writer. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, where he also works as a palliative care nurse. Steven Amsterdam was born and raised in"
"for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Emma Donoghue Emma Donoghue (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Her 2010 novel ""Room"" was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel ""Hood"" won the Stonewall Book Award. and ""Slammerkin"" (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. ""Room"" was adapted into a film of the same name, for which Donoghue wrote the screenplay which was subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Donoghue was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969. The youngest of eight children, she is"
"win the Man Booker Prize for ""The English Patient"". Margaret Atwood won the Booker in 2000 for ""The Blind Assassin"" and Yann Martel won it in 2002 for the ""Life of Pi"". Carol Shields's ""The Stone Diaries"" won the Governor General's Awards in Canada in 1993, the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2013, Alice Munro was the first Canadian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as ""master of the modern short story"". Munro is also a recipient of the Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime"
"almost as much to see mediocre books over-praised."" In reaction, ""The New York Times"" invited eight literary experts to pick their winners for the prize. The experts and their picks were Sam Anderson and Macy Halford: ""The Pale King"" by David Foster Wallace; Maud Newton: ""Pym"" by Mat Johnson; Gregory Cowles: ""The Year We Left Home"" by Jean Thompson; Garth Risk Hallberg: ""The Angel Esmeralda"" by Don DeLillo; Laila Lalami: ""State of Wonder"" by Ann Patchett; Alexander Chee: ""Silver Sparrow"" by Tayari Jones, and John Williams: ""Open City"" by Teju Cole. There were 21 prizes awarded in three categories. The"
"Postcards from No Man's Land Postcards from No Man's Land is a young-adult novel by Aidan Chambers, published by Bodley Head in 1999. Two stories are set in Amsterdam during 1994 and 1944. One features 17-year-old visitor Jacob Todd during the 50-year commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem, in which his grandfather fought; the other features 19-year-old Geertrui late in the German occupation of the Netherlands. It was the fifth of six novels in the series Chambers calls ""The Dance Sequence"", which he inaugurated in 1978 with ""Breaktime"". Chambers won the annual Carnegie Medal, from the Library Association, recognising the"
"Ondaatje for his 1992 novel ""The English Patient"". The judges were (chosen decade in parentheses): The shortlisted works were: The Golden Man Booker The Golden Man Booker was a special one-off prize awarded in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Booker Prize. All of the previous 51 winning titles since the Booker's inception in 1969 were eligible. Five judges read the books from each relevant decade and chose a title which to be pitted against the judges' other choices. The judges' shortlist of five titles was announced on 26 May 2018, with voting also commencing that day. The winner"
"is a renowned journalist and the author of ""The Srinagar Conspiracy"" (2000). Suketu Mehta is another writer currently based in the United States who authored Maximum City (2004), an autobiographical account of his experiences in the city of Mumbai. In 2008, Arvind Adiga received the Man Booker Prize for his debut novel The White Tiger. Recent writers in India such as Arundhati Roy and David Davidar show a direction towards contextuality and rootedness in their works. Arundhati Roy, a trained architect and the 1997 Booker prize winner for her ""The God of Small Things"", calls herself a ""home grown"" writer."
"Astrid Roemer Astrid Heligonda Roemer (; born 24 April 1947) is a writer and teacher from Suriname living in the Netherlands. The Dutch-language author has published novels, drama and poetry, and in December 2015 was announced as the winner of the P. C. Hooft Award, considered the most important literary prize in the Netherlands and Belgium, which was presented in May 2016. Roemer was born in Paramaribo,capital of Suriname, and attended the city's Kweekschool, a teaching college, where in 1965, she was discovered as a poet. She travelled to the Netherlands the following year, and went back and forth between"
"a book a day – is absurd, as is the idea that this is any way of honouring a writer"".. The winner is usually announced at a ceremony in London's Guildhall, usually in early October. In 1993, to mark the prize's 25th anniversary, a """"Booker of Bookers"" Prize"" was given. Three previous judges of the award, Malcolm Bradbury, David Holloway and W. L. Webb, met and chose Salman Rushdie's ""Midnight's Children"", the 1981 winner, as ""the best novel out of all the winners."" In 2006, the Man Booker Prize set up a 'Best of Beryl' prize, for the author Beryl"
"Steven Amsterdam Steven Amsterdam (born in New York City on January 31, 1966) is an American writer. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, where he also works as a palliative care nurse. Steven Amsterdam was born and raised in New York City. He attended Bronx High School of Science, the University of Chicago and the University of Melbourne. He worked as a map editor, book jacket designer and pastry chef before moving to Australia in 2003. His writing has appeared in The Age, Conde Nast Traveller, Five Chapters, Huffington Post, Meanjin, The Monthly, Monument, Overland, Sleepers Almanac and Torpedo's Greatest Hits."
"prize, after Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, and Kiran Desai. (V. S. Naipaul, another winner, is ethnically Indian but was born on the Caribbean island of Trinidad.) The five other authors on the shortlist included one other Indian writer (Amitav Ghosh) and another first-time writer (Steve Toltz). The novel studies the contrast between India's rise as a modern global economy and the lead character, Balram, who comes from crushing rural poverty. Adiga explained that ""criticism by writers like Flaubert, Balzac and Dickens of the 19th century helped England and France become better societies"". Shortly after he won the prize, it was"
"book, which follows the story of one such assistant, has been called ""a perfect storm of a novel."" by the Sydney Morning Herald and ""incredibly funny"" by The Australian Book Review. It has been shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Amsterdam has received a grant from the Australia Council. His books have been translated into Dutch, French, Italian and Hebrew. ""Things We Didn't See Coming"" (2009) ""What the Family Needed"" (2012) ""The Easy Way Out"" (2016) ""The Easy Way Out"" Miles Franklin Award, longlist ALS Gold Medal, shortlist Australian Book Industry Awards, longlist"
"their folly. Notes Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 is a non-fiction book by historians Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace. Based on over twenty years of research, it was published in 1998 by Oxford University Press and won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History. The second volume, written by Wallace, was published in 2017, covering New York City history from 1898 through 1919. Initial plans were to have the second volume's timeline go through World War II, but due to the amount of material, an upcoming third"
"Emma Donoghue Emma Donoghue (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Her 2010 novel ""Room"" was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel ""Hood"" won the Stonewall Book Award. and ""Slammerkin"" (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. ""Room"" was adapted into a film of the same name, for which Donoghue wrote the screenplay which was subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Donoghue was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969. The youngest of eight children, she is the daughter of Frances (née"
"non-fiction book about female leadership with Lotta Snickare. Marklund's crime novels featuring crime reporter Annika Bengtzon have become international bestsellers. She won the ""Poloni Prize"" (Polonipriset) 1998 for ""Best Swedish Crime Novel by a Female Writer"" and ""The Debutant Prize"", (Debutantpriset) 1998 for ""Best First Novel of the Year"" with the crime novel ""Sprängaren"" (""The Bomber""), published in 1998. Marklund was named Author of the Year in Sweden 1999 by the Swedish trade union SKTF, won the radio network RixFM's Swedish Literary Prize in 2007, and was selected the fifteenth most popular woman in Sweden of 2003 and the fourth"
"successful novel ""The English Patient"" (1992), which was adapted into a film in 1996. In 2018, Ondaatje won the Golden Man Booker Prize for ""The English Patient"". In addition to his literary writing, Ondaatje has been an important force in ""fostering new Canadian writing"" with two decades commitment to Coach House Press (around 1970-90), and his editorial credits on Canadian literary projects like the journal ""Brick"", and the ""Long Poem Anthology"" (1979), among others. Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, then called Ceylon, in 1943; he is of Dutch, Sinhalese, and Tamil ancestry. His parents separated when he was"
"respectively. The winner, as chosen by a public vote, was Salman Rushdie's ""Midnight's Children"", and was announced on July 10 at the London Literature Festival. ""Midnight's Children"" not only won the 1981 Booker, but also the special 1993 Booker of Bookers prize, which commemorated the award's 25th anniversary. The shortlisted titles were: The Best of the Booker The Best of the Booker is a special prize awarded in commemoration of the Booker Prize's 40th anniversary. Eligible books included the 41 winners of the Booker Prize since its inception in 1969. The six shortlisted titles were announced on 12 May 2008"
"(1992). Seventeen winners of the Booker Prize have taken part: Margaret Atwood (2000), Julian Barnes (2011), A.S. Byatt (1990), Peter Carey (1988) & (2001), Kiran Desai (2006), Roddy Doyle (1993), Kazuo Ishiguro (1989), Howard Jacobson (2010), Thomas Keneally (1982), Penelope Lively (1987), Ian McEwan (1998), Yann Martel (2002), V. S. Naipaul (1971), Ben Okri (1991), Michael Ondaatje (1992), Arundhati Roy (1997), and Salman Rushdie (1981). Seven Whitbread (now called Costa) Book of the Year Award winners have taken part: Peter Ackroyd (1985), William Boyd (1981), Kazuo Ishiguro (1989), Andrea Levy (2004), David Lodge (1980), Philip Pullman (2006) and Colm Tóibín"
"Madhumalati Adhikari has critiqued the treatment of World War II and its effects on the characters of the novel. The novel won the 1992 Booker Prize, athe 1992 Governor General's Award, and the 2018 Golden Man Booker award. The book was adapted into a 1996 film by Anthony Minghella, starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Colin Firth, and Juliette Binoche. The film received nine Academy Awards—including Best Picture and Director—at the 69th Academy Awards. The English Patient The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian"
"In 1998, Guthridge and Janet Berliner won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in the Novel for their ""Children of the Dusk"". In turn, Guthridge helped Martin find a job at Clarke University (then Clarke College). Martin ""wasn't making enough money to stay alive"", from writing and the chess tournaments, says Guthridge. From 1976 to 1978, Martin was an English and journalism instructor at Clarke, and he became Writer In Residence at the college from 1978 to 1979. While he enjoyed teaching, the sudden death of friend and fellow author Tom Reamy in late 1977 made Martin reevaluate his"
"1972 and ""Nights at the Circus"" 1984. Margaret Drabble (born 1939) is a novelist, biographer and critic, who published from the 1960s into the 21st century. Her older sister, A. S. Byatt (born 1936) is best known for ""Possession"" published in 1990. Martin Amis (born 1949) is one of the most prominent of contemporary British novelists. His best-known novels are ""Money"" (1984) and ""London Fields"" (1989). Pat Barker (born 1943) has won many awards for her fiction. English novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan (born 1948) is another of contemporary Britain's most highly regarded writers. His works include ""The Cement Garden"""
"Sadık Yemni Sadık Yemni (born Istanbul, 1951) is a Dutch science fiction author of Turkish extraction. Yemni is the author of twenty two novels published in the Turkish language, as well as a variety of short stories, essays, plays, and film scripts. He is known particularly for ""De roos van Amsterdam"" (""The rose of Amsterdam""). Yemni was born in Istanbul, Turkey, but moved with his parents to Izmir when he was still a baby. He studied Chemistry at Ege University, before emigrating to Amsterdam to avoid military service. He developed an interest in literature while working on the railways. Yemni"
"deals with psychological aspects of individuals. The novel was also translated into Swedish and Danish language. Further books are the novel ""Løp, mann"" from 1980, two stories in the collection ""April/November"" (1983), and the novel ""Hvem har ditt ansikt?"" from 1988. She received Gyldendal's Endowment in 1988, and was the first winner of the Amalie Skram Prize, in 1994. The novel ""Hvem har ditt ansikt"" was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1989, but did not win the prize. She was awarded the Brage Prize in 1997 for the novel ""Verden forsvinner"". In 2002 she published the novel"
"won the 2002 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. His novel ""Beijing Coma"" (2008) tells the story of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 from the point of view of the fictional Dai Wei, a participant in the events left in a coma by the violent end of the protests. The comatose narrator functions as a metaphor for the ability to remember and the inability to act. It has received critical acclaim, with Tom Deveson of ""The Times"" describing it as ""epic in scope but intimate in feeling … magnificent"" and the ""Financial Times"" calling it ""an epic yet intimate work"
"World Trade Center in New York during the September 11, 2001 attacks, won the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Notably, he is a two-time winner of both the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for translation from the French (in 2008 for Frédéric Beigbeder's ""Holiday in a Coma"" and ""Love Lasts Three Years"" and in 2015 for Boualem Sansal's ""Harraga"") and the Premio Valle Inclán for Spanish Translation (in 2011 for Marcelo Figueras's ""Kamchatka"" and in 2013 for Alonso Cueto's ""The Blue Hour""). His book, ""I Was Vermeer"", a biography of Han van Meegeren was published by Bloomsbury in August 2006 and"