"the campaign and then thousands of people from the ""general public"" submitted their ideas via Twitter. The 20 winners were announced 29 July 2014. The organizers noted that over half the winning books were published before 1960. The fact that the prize excludes male writers has provoked comment. After the prize was founded, Auberon Waugh nicknamed it the ""Lemon Prize,"" while Germaine Greer said there would soon be a prize for ""writers with red hair"". A. S. Byatt, who won the 1990 Man Booker Prize, said it was a ""sexist prize"", claiming ""such a prize was never needed"". She refused"
"Isobel Armstrong Isobel Armstrong, (born 1937) is a British academic. She is emeritus professor of English at Birkbeck, University of London and a senior research fellow of the Institute of English Studies at the University of London. She is a fellow of the British Academy. She is a critic of nineteenth-century poetry, literature and women's writing. Her publications include ""The Radical Aesthetic"" (2000), ""Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre"" (1999) and ""Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Politics and Poetics"" (1993). She is also a published poet. ""Possession: A Romance"", the 1990 Booker Prize-winning novel by A. S. Byatt,"
"satisfying on an intellectual level"" but,"" ""Possession's"" true centre is a big, red, beating heart. It's the warmth and spirit that Byatt has breathed into her characters rather than their cerebral pursuits that makes us care"". Concluding, ""There's real magic behind all the brainy trickery and an emotional journey on top of the academic quest. So I loved it."" The novel was adapted as a 2002 feature film by the same name, starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Maud Bailey; Aaron Eckhart as Roland Michell; and Jeremy Northam and Jennifer Ehle as the fictional poets Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte, respectively."
"Possession (1981 film) Possession is a 1981 French-German psychological horror-drama film co-written and directed by Andrzej Żuławski and starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill. The plot obliquely follows the relationship between an international spy and his wife, who begins exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking him for a divorce. Filmed in Berlin in 1980, the film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, where Adjani won the award for Best Actress for her performance. ""Possession"" was Żuławski's only English-language film. In recent years, it has developed a cult following. Mark is a spy who returns home to Berlin from a mysterious"
"Possession (2009 film) Possession is a 2009 American remake of the South Korean film ""Addicted"". It is a psychological thriller film starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Lee Pace. Jess (Gellar) is a sweet-natured but driven lawyer who puts her career ahead of her personal life and ahead of her marriage to her artist husband, Ryan (Landes). The couple is on the verge of their first wedding anniversary and, though they are happy, the thorn in the side of their relationship is Ryan's younger brother Roman (Pace). Where Ryan comes across as an honest and sweet man, Roman is the direct"
"of 1987 is key in an important scene near the end of ""Possession: A Romance"", the bestselling and Man Booker Prize-winning novel by A. S. Byatt. The Great Storm of 1987 occurred on the night of October 15–16, 1987, when an unusually strong weather system caused winds to hit much of southern England and northern France. It was the worst storm to hit England since the Great Storm of 1703 (284 years earlier) and was responsible for the deaths of at least 22 people in England and France combined (18 in England, at least four in France). Hurricane Katrina (2005)"
"Possession (trilogy) Possession is a young adult dystopian novel trilogy written by Elana Johnson and published by Simon Pulse. The first book in the series, ""Possession"", was published on 7 June 2011, and was followed by ""Surrender"" (5 June 2012) and ""Abandon"" (4 June 2013). The series follows Vi, a rebellious teen girl who is unwilling to follow the rules set out by the oppressive 'Thinkers' yet unable to leave her prospective mate Zenn behind. After the release of ""Possession"" Johnson issued a 20-page short story entitled ""Resist"", which serves as a prequel to the series. Vi is a beautiful"
"Repossessed (film) Repossessed is a 1990 American comedy film that parodies the 1973 horror film, ""The Exorcist"". It was written and directed by Bob Logan. The film features the original star of ""The Exorcist"", Linda Blair, as well as Leslie Nielsen and Anthony Starke. Many gags parodied events in ""The Exorcist"", such as the green-vomit and head-spinning scenes. Father Jebediah Mayii (Nielsen) casts out the devil from the body of young Nancy Aglet (Blair). Seventeen years later, in 1990, Nancy's body is possessed once again, however, while watching ""The Ernest and Fanny Miracle Hour"", a religious broadcast. After a visit"
"Machines of Doctor Hoffman"" (1972) and ""Nights at the Circus"" (1984). Margaret Drabble (born 1939) is a novelist, biographer and critic, who has published from the 1960s until this 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. Novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan (born 1948) is another of contemporary Britain's most highly regarded writers. His works include"
"charge Myers with living in an ""imagined past"", in which all the authors were more talented. Myers agrees to a point, but gives the example of the National Book Award winners between 1990 and 2001 compared to those of 1950 through 1961 winners. 1950 Nelson Algren...1990 Charles R. Johnson 1951 William Faulkner...1991 Norman Rush 1952 James Jones...1992 Cormac McCarthy 1953 Ralph Ellison...1993 E. Annie Proulx 1954 Saul Bellow...1994 William Gaddis 1955 William Faulkner...1995 Philip Roth 1956 John O'Hara...1996 Andrea Barrett 1957 Wright Morris...1997 Charles Frazier 1958 John Cheever...1998 Alice McDermott 1959 Bernard Malamud...1999 Ha Jin 1960 Philip Roth...2000 Susan Sontag"
"Possessed (novel) Possessed () is a 1939 novel by the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz, published under the pseudonym Zdisław Niewieski. It is a pastiche of gothic and serial novels in the vein of Horace Walpole and Eugène Sue. The novel was serialised in the summer 1939 in two Polish daily newspapers, under the pseudonym Zdisław Niewieski. Only the first two parts were published before the outbreak of World War II. Witold Gombrowicz never claimed authorship of the work until a few days before his death in 1969. It was first published in book form in 1973. In 1986, the three"
"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"""
"A. S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning 1990 novel ""Possession"" and in the 2002 film adapted from it. Lyme Regis is the setting for much of the historical novel ""Remarkable Creatures"" by Tracy Chevalier, of which fossil hunter Mary Anning is a protagonist. Lyme Regis Football Club, known as the Seasiders, was formed in 1885. It is situated at the Davey Fort Ground on Charmouth Road and has three senior teams and five junior teams. The senior teams play in the Devon and Exeter Football League and Perry Street and District League. In its 125th anniversary year, 2010, Tony Cottee (a former"
"(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"
"possession. 1996 American Debut at New York's Public Theater starring Jayne Atkinson, Caroline Seymour, Angie Phillips with Philip Seymour Hoffman and an ensemble cast. It was directed by Mark Wing-Davey. It was presented by the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival at 425 Lafayette Street, East Village. In November, 2006, The Virtual Theatricality Lab at Henry Ford College staged the play using 3D stereo digital technology and motion capture to create the scenery, creatures and fairies. It was directed by George Popovich. Digital scenery, creatures and animations were by Christopher Dozier. In 2011, Arizona State University produced the play."
"Generation"" (1973), ""And I Worked at the Writer's Trade"" (1978), and ""The Dream of the Golden Mountains: Remembering the 1930s"" (1980). ""And I Worked"" won a 1980 U.S. National Book Award in the one-year category Autobiography. When ""The Portable Malcolm Cowley"" (Donald Faulkner, editor) was published in 1990, the year after Cowley's death, Michael Rogers wrote in ""Library Journal"": ""Though a respected name in hardcore literary circles, in general the late Cowley is one of the unsung heroes of 20th-century American literature. Poet, critic, Boswell of the Lost Generation of which he himself was a member, savior of Faulkner's dwindling"
"closing the book – leaving the endings open for reinterpretation, revisitation, a little ambiguity.""<ref name=""salon""> Toni Morrison Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor emeritus at Princeton University. Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for ""Beloved"". The novel was adapted into a film of the same name (starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover) in 1998. Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. In 1996, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected her for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's"
"By Love Possessed (novel) By Love Possessed is a novel written by James Gould Cozzens in the middle 1950s. It was published on August 26, 1957, by Harcourt Brace and Company, and became a critically acclaimed best-seller. In 1960, it was awarded the William Dean Howells Medal, an award given every five years to the best novel of the previous five years. The novel was turned into a feature film in which Lana Turner co-starred. ""By Love Possessed"" was one of Cozzens's ""professional novels,"" whose stories presented fully developed characters and placed a special emphasis on the details of their"
"final parts of the novel were discovered. The full version was published in 1990. Possessed (novel) Possessed () is a 1939 novel by the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz, published under the pseudonym Zdisław Niewieski. It is a pastiche of gothic and serial novels in the vein of Horace Walpole and Eugène Sue. The novel was serialised in the summer 1939 in two Polish daily newspapers, under the pseudonym Zdisław Niewieski. Only the first two parts were published before the outbreak of World War II. Witold Gombrowicz never claimed authorship of the work until a few days before his death in"
"in Portugal. Jérôme d'Estais, Andrzej Zulawski, sur le fil, Editions lettmotif Possession (1981 film) Possession is a 1981 French-German psychological horror-drama film co-written and directed by Andrzej Żuławski and starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill. The plot obliquely follows the relationship between an international spy and his wife, who begins exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking him for a divorce. Filmed in Berlin in 1980, the film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, where Adjani won the award for Best Actress for her performance. ""Possession"" was Żuławski's only English-language film. In recent years, it has developed a cult following. Mark"
"person to receive the award, having been 89 years old when he won for ""Call Me by Your Name"". Noted novelists and playwrights nominated in this category include: George Bernard Shaw (who shared an award for an adaptation of his play ""Pygmalion""), Graham Greene, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, James Hilton, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Lillian Hellman, Irwin Shaw, James Agee, Norman Corwin, S. J. Perelman, Terence Rattigan, John Osborne, Robert Bolt, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Larry McMurtry, Arthur Miller, John Irving, David Hare, Tony Kushner, and August Wilson. Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green, writers of ""Logan"", are the"
"and resulted in two wins. Puzo's novel ""The Godfather"" resulted in wins in 1972 and 1974. The other is E. M. Forster, whose novels ""A Room with a View"" and ""Howards End"" resulted in wins for Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Larry McMurtry is the only person who has won (for ""Brokeback Mountain"") for adapting someone else's work and whose work has been adapted by someone else resulting in a win, ""Terms of Endearment"". Emma Thompson is the only winner who has also won for acting. Winners Billy Bob Thornton and John Huston have only received nominations (not wins) in the acting"
"Claire Dyer, ‘Trust and the Horse’ 2nd prize – Russell Jones, ‘Waggledancers’ 3rd prize- Nell Farrell, ‘Finding the Wedding Photos’ Highly Commended: Kristen Irving, ‘Huixtocihuatl’, John Foggin, ‘For the True Naming of the World’, Jill Munro, ‘Freeze-framed’, David Curtis, ‘What the Owls Say’, Andy Humphrey, ‘Becoming Hedgehog’. Judges: Professor Antony Caleshu Dr. Kim Martindale Dr. Miriam Darlington Professor Ronald Tamplin 1st prize - Jack Thacker, 'The Load' 2nd prize - Joanne Key, 'The Year You Turned Into A Fish' 3rd prize - Liz Breslin, 'Walk A Mile/ Stepping Out' Highly Commended: Victor Tapner, 'A Gap In The Field', Theresa Lola,"
"Toni Morrison Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor emeritus at Princeton University. Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for ""Beloved"". The novel was adapted into a film of the same name (starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover) in 1998. Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. In 1996, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected her for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. She was honored with the 1996 National Book"
"in the ""New York Times"", wrote ""a plenitude of surprises awaits the reader of this gorgeously written novel. A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because ""Possession"" is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight."" Also ""The most dazzling aspect of ""Possession"" is Ms. Byatt's canny invention of letters, poems and diaries from the 19th century"". Critic Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, writing in the ""New York Times"", noted that what he describes as the ""wonderfully extravagant novel"" is ""pointedly subtitled 'A Romance'."""
"million for the full Labor Day Weekend. The Possession The Possession is a 2012 American supernatural horror film directed by Ole Bornedal and produced by Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, and J. R. Young, and written by Juliet Snowden and Stiles White. It stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, Natasha Calis, Grant Show, Madison Davenport, and Matisyahu. The film was shot in early 2011. Parts of the film were filmed at a former mental istitution, Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam, British Columbia. It was released in the US on August 31, 2012, with the film premiering at the Film4 FrightFest and received"
"a crush on Raine for a long time. In ""Abandon"" everything comes to a head: Vi finally makes a choice between Jag and Zenn, which could prove to have far reaching repercussions. At the same time, the group must find a way to defeat the Thinkers once and for all, something that is made more difficult by the fact that the resistance has a traitor in their midst. Prepare to be heartbroken! Possession (trilogy) Possession is a young adult dystopian novel trilogy written by Elana Johnson and published by Simon Pulse. The first book in the series, ""Possession"", was published"
"Philippines. Possession (2009 film) Possession is a 2009 American remake of the South Korean film ""Addicted"". It is a psychological thriller film starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Lee Pace. Jess (Gellar) is a sweet-natured but driven lawyer who puts her career ahead of her personal life and ahead of her marriage to her artist husband, Ryan (Landes). The couple is on the verge of their first wedding anniversary and, though they are happy, the thorn in the side of their relationship is Ryan's younger brother Roman (Pace). Where Ryan comes across as an honest and sweet man, Roman is the"
"Book of the Month Club. New York: Harcourt Brace four additional printings. London: Longmans Green 1958 New York: Crest 1959. Paperback. Harmondsworth: Penguin 1960. Paperback New York: Harcourt Brace and World- Harvest paperback 1967. William Dean Howells Medal, 1960 By Love Possessed (novel) By Love Possessed is a novel written by James Gould Cozzens in the middle 1950s. It was published on August 26, 1957, by Harcourt Brace and Company, and became a critically acclaimed best-seller. In 1960, it was awarded the William Dean Howells Medal, an award given every five years to the best novel of the previous five"
"The Possession The Possession is a 2012 American supernatural horror film directed by Ole Bornedal and produced by Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, and J. R. Young, and written by Juliet Snowden and Stiles White. It stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, Natasha Calis, Grant Show, Madison Davenport, and Matisyahu. The film was shot in early 2011. Parts of the film were filmed at a former mental istitution, Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam, British Columbia. It was released in the US on August 31, 2012, with the film premiering at the Film4 FrightFest and received mixed reviews from film critics. The story"
"Possessed (2000 film) Possessed is a 2000 Showtime original film starring Timothy Dalton, based on events appearing in the book ""Possessed"" by Thomas B. Allen, which was inspired by the exorcism case of Roland Doe. The film was released on DVD in the United States on October 2, 2001. William S. Bowdern (Timothy Dalton) is a World War II veteran who was severely affected by a bad experience in France on All Saints’ Day in 1944. In the first scene of the film, we flash-back through one of Bowdern's dreams to where he was trying to escape from a German"
"Possession (1922 film) Possession or Phroso is a 1922 British-French silent drama film directed by Louis Mercanton and starring Malvina Longfellow, Reginald Owen and Max Maxudian. It is based on the 1897 novel ""Phroso"" by Anthony Hope. As described in a film magazine, Lord Wheatley (Owen) purchases an island off Turkey and under Turkish rule. Upon arrival, he finds the natives bitterly opposed to his taking possession. They plan to install a young woman, Phroso (Longfellow), as dictator. Several fights occur between the islanders and Wheatley's servants. Mouraki Pacha (Maxudian) arrives and quells the natives, but covets Phroso. Wheatley rescues"
"Fiction in 1968 for his novel ""The Confessions of Nat Turner"" and is well known for his 1979 novel ""Sophie's Choice."" Anne Tyler also received the Pulitzer Prize for her 1988 novel ""Breathing Lessons"". Additionally, Elizabeth A. Fenn won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2015. Other acclaimed writers include John W. Campbell and Reynolds Price. In the visual arts realm, Annabeth Gish (actress in the ""X-Files"" and ""The West Wing""), Ken Jeong (actor in ""The Hangover"" and ""Community""), Retta (actress and comedian), Jared Harris (actor in ""Mad Men""), Randall Wallace (screenwriter, producer, and director, ""Braveheart"", ""Pearl Harbor"", ""We Were"