Which author has been nominated for the Booker Prize for the novels 'Flaubert's Parrot', 'England' and 'Arthur And George', but is yet to win the award?
"a literary agent, in 1979. She died on 20 October 2008 of a brain tumour. Barnes wrote about his grief over his wife's death in an essay in his book, ""Levels of Life"". Julian Barnes Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book ""The Sense of an Ending"" (2011), and three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: ""Flaubert's Parrot"" (1984), ""England, England"" (1998), and ""Arthur & George"" (2005). He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. In addition to novels,"
"Bainbridge, who has been nominated five times and yet has failed to win once. The prize is said to count as a Booker Prize. The nominees were An Awfully Big Adventure, Every Man for Himself, The Bottle Factory Outing, The Dressmaker and Master Georgie, which won. Similarly, The Best of the Booker was awarded in 2008 to celebrate the prize's 40th anniversary. A shortlist of six winners was chosen and the decision was left to a public vote; the winner was again ""Midnight's Children"". In 2018, to celebrate the 50 anniversary, the Golden Man Booker was awarded. One book from"
"while Robert Silverberg has the greatest number of nominations without winning at nine. Three authors have won the award in consecutive years: Orson Scott Card (1986, 1987), Lois McMaster Bujold (1991, 1992), and N. K. Jemisin (2016, 2017, and 2018). In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding ""year in literature"". Entries with a blue background have won the award; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list. * Winners and joint winners Beginning with the 1996 Worldcon,"
"afterword by Harold Bloom. Originally slated for 2007 publication, as of 21 September 2018 the edition has not yet been published, though the effort to publish it continues. Little, Big Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament is a modern fantasy novel by John Crowley, published in 1981. It won the World Fantasy Award in 1982. Turn-of-the-century architect John Drinkwater begins to suspect that within this world there lies another (and beyond that, another and another ad infinitum, each larger than the world that contains it). Towards the centre is the realm of Faerie. Every time a generation or epoch moves"
"offputting...where's the heart?"" In September 2011, ""The Sense of an Ending"" was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Barnes had been shortlisted for the prize on three previous occasions for ""Flaubert's Parrot"" (1984), ""England, England"" (1998) and ""Arthur & George"" (2005). On choosing ""The Sense of an Ending"" for the shortlist, judge Gaby Wood said ""It seems to be the most obvious book on this list. It's a quiet book, but the shock that comes doesn't break stride with the tone of the rest of the book. In purely technical terms it is one of the most masterful things I've"
"Forest of Dean on the borders of England and Wales. Andrew Taylor (author) Andrew Taylor (born 14 October 1951) is a British author best known for his crime novels, which include the Lydmouth series, the Roth Trilogy and historical novels such as the best-selling ""The American Boy"" and ""The Ashes of London"". His accolades include the Diamond Dagger, Britain's top crime-writing award. Andrew Taylor grew up in East Anglia. He was educated at The King's School, Ely, and Woodbridge School. He read English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and has an MA in Library, Archive and Information Science from University College"
"Brothers. In 2011 Steve Kloves was attached to write and direct the project, but as of 2018 it has not yet been produced. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon. Its title quotes the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 short story ""The Adventure of Silver Blaze"". Haddon and ""The Curious Incident"" won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and the Guardian"
"which included the British novelist Tim Parks and the Trinidadian writer Elizabeth Nunez, described ""Even the Dogs"", a novel detailing the highs and lows of drug addiction, as a ""fearless experiment"". McGregor described it as ""a real honour to have been selected from such a huge list of fantastic works from around the world."" He was the first British writer to win the award since Nicola Barker in 2000. Jon McGregor Jon McGregor (born 1976) is a British novelist and short story writer. In 2002, his first novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize, making him the youngest ever contender."
"Poul Anderson, Kelly Link, George R. R. Martin, and Connie Willis have each won twice out of five, two, four, and five nominations, respectively. One of Anderson's nominations was under the pseudonym Michael Karageorge. Ursula K. Le Guin has the most nominations of any author with seven, including one win and not including one withdrawn nomination. James Patrick Kelly and Richard Bowes are tied for the most nominations without winning at six. In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novelette was first published. Each year links to the corresponding ""year"
"the film bears a resemblance to the illustrations in the book. However, the novel ""The Dragon and the George"" by Gordon R. Dickson was the inspiration for the film's plot. One of the main characters is Peter Dickinson, the book's author himself struggling to complete his text. Peter Dickinson Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL (16 December 1927 – 16 December 2015) was an English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories. Dickinson won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for both ""Tulku"" (1979) and ""City of Gold"" (1980), each being recognised as"
"Parrot and Olivier in America Parrot and Olivier in America is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was on the shortlist of six books for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. It was also a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award. The book, according to its publisher, is ""an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville"", and focuses on Tocqueville's trips to the United States. The novel mimic's this life with the fictional character, Olivier de Garmont, to the life of Tocqueville, to help the reader explore Tocqueville's life. The titular ""Parrot"" is Garmont's secretary, which New"
"Andrew Taylor (author) Andrew Taylor (born 14 October 1951) is a British author best known for his crime novels, which include the Lydmouth series, the Roth Trilogy and historical novels such as the best-selling ""The American Boy"" and ""The Ashes of London"". His accolades include the Diamond Dagger, Britain's top crime-writing award. Andrew Taylor grew up in East Anglia. He was educated at The King's School, Ely, and Woodbridge School. He read English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and has an MA in Library, Archive and Information Science from University College London. His first novel, ""Caroline Minuscule"" (1982), won the John"
"Literature Association in 1991, which recognizes the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award. In her most recent works of fiction she has explored related themes and recounted stories from different points of view in three novels: ""Old Filth"" (2004), ""The Man in the Wooden Hat"" (2009), and ""Last Friends"" (2013). One American reviewer noted that her concern with ""the intricate web of manners and class peculiar to the inhabitants of her homeland"" does not explain why she remains less well known to an international audience than her English contemporaries. He recommended ""Old"
"of four; Jeffrey Ford, out of three; and James K. Morrow for both of his nominations. Wolfe has the most nominations for an author who has won at least once, while Stephen King has the most nominations without winning, at nine, followed by Charles L. Grant at six and Jonathan Carroll at five. In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding ""year in literature"". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the"
"a bust of H. P. Lovecraft through the 2015 awards; more recent winners receive a statuette of a tree. During the 44 nomination years, 145 individuals and four publishing companies have been nominated; 53 people have won, including ties and co-nominees. For his work at Donald M. Grant, Publisher Donald M. Grant has won three times out of eight nominations, and six other nominees have won twice. Ian Ballantine and Betty Ballantine have won twice out of two nominations each for their non-fiction and publishing work, and Peter Crowther twice out of four nominations for his work at PS Publishing."
"During the 37 nomination years, 131 authors have had works nominated; 37 of them have won, including ties and co-authors. Only four authors have won more than once: Elizabeth Hand, with three wins out of eight nominations; Richard Bowes, with two wins out of three nominations; K. J. Parker, who also won twice out of three nominations; and Ellen Klages, with two wins out of two nominations. Of authors who have won at least once, Hand has the most nominations, followed by George R. R. Martin at five and Ursula K. Le Guin at four. Lucius Shepard has the most"
"other author has won multiple times. Stephen Baxter and Gwyneth Jones have the most nominations at seven, and Baxter has the most nominations without winning. Neal Stephenson has won once out of six nominations; Ken MacLeod and Kim Stanley Robinson have also been nominated six times. Paul J. McAuley and Miéville have been nominated five times; McAuley has one win, whereas MacLeod and Robinson have none. In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding ""year in literature"". Entries with a blue"
"Nancy Kress, Bruce Sterling, and Robert Charles Wilson have won once out of four nominations. Greg Bear has the most nominations without winning at nine, followed by Sheri S. Tepper at six, James K. Morrow at five, and William Gibson, Ken MacLeod, and Charles Stross at four. In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding ""year in literature"". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background"
"was awarded to the American writer George Saunders, for ""Lincoln in the Bardo"". Previous winners include Philip Roth and Lydia Davis. The 2014 award went to author Richard Flanagan for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, with his prize presented by Chair of judges AC Grayling at London's Guildhall. It was the first year in which eligibility for the award was expanded to include any novel written in English and published in the UK. Man also sponsors the Man Booker International Prize. This £50,000 prize is awarded each year on the basis of a single book translated into English,"
"than the Booker Prize. In 1989, controversy erupted when the judges first awarded the Best Novel prize to Alexander Stuart's ""The War Zone"", then withdrew the prize prior to the ceremony amid acrimony among the judges, ultimately awarding it to Lindsay Clarke's ""The Chymical Wedding"". Authors need not be British or Irish but they must have been resident in the UK or Ireland for at least six months in each of the previous three years. There are five book award categories, without change since the Poetry Award was introduced in 1985, although the children's category has been termed ""children's novel"""
"""Frindle"" the best English-language children's book published in 1996 that did not win a major contemporary book award, thus making it the winner of the Phoenix Award for 2016. Contemporary Awards Nominations and runners-up Listings and recommendations Andrew Clements Andrew Clements (born May 29, 1949) is an American writer of many children's books. His debut novel ""Frindle"" won annual book awards determined by the vote of U.S. schoolchildren in about twenty different U.S. states. In June 2015 it was named the Phoenix Award winner for 2016 as the best book that did not win a major award when it was"
"fantasizes about winning Miss Pratt by the rescue of precious little Flopit from an automobile's rushing wheels. In June 2019, The Library of America will publish ""Booth Tarkington: Novels & Stories"" , collecting ""The Magnificent Ambersons"" and ""Alice Adams"" and ""In the Arena: Stories of Political Life"". Booth Tarkington Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels ""The Magnificent Ambersons"" and ""Alice Adams"". He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike."
"age. The authors she most admires (and continues to reread) are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and Henry James. In 2014, she was named as the recipient of the Florida Humanities Council's 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing. Janet Burroway Janet Burroway (born September 21, 1936) is an American author. Burroway's published oeuvre includes eight novels, memoirs, short stories, poems, translations, plays, two children's books, and two how-to books about the craft of writing. Her novel ""The Buzzards"" was nominated for the 1970 Pulitzer Prize. ""Raw Silk"" is her most acclaimed novel thus far. While Burroway's literary fame is"
"United Kingdom, and was published in the United States by Norton, which replaced Borroff's translation with Armitage's for the ninth edition of the ""Norton Anthology of English Literature"". Other modern translations include those by Larry Benson, Brian Stone, James Winny, Helen Cooper, W. S. Merwin, Jacob Rosenberg, William Vantuono, Joseph Glaser, Bernard O'Donoghue, John Gardner, and Francis Ingledew. In 2015, Zach Weinersmith published Augie and the Green Knight, a children's adaptation in which the protagonist is a young girl. A new and illustrated translation of the work by illustrator and historian Michael Smith is currently being crowdsourced by publisher Unbound"
"Bacigalupi and Lucius Shepard have won once out of four times. Robert Reed has the most nominations without winning at eight, followed by James Patrick Kelly and Ian R. MacLeod at seven, and Greg Egan, Ken Liu,and Bruce Sterling at five. In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the work was first published. Each year links to the corresponding ""year in literature"". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the"
"Thoraiya Dyer holds the record for most wins, having won three times. Angela Slatter holds the record for most nominations, having been nominated seven times. Adam Browne and Kaaron Warren share the record for most nominations without winning, both having been losing finalists three times. In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the story's eligibility; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Each year links to the corresponding ""year in literature"" article. Entries with a blue background have won the award; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list. If the short"
"49 of these have won, including co-authors and ties. Nancy Kress has won the most awards: four out of eight nominations. Robert Silverberg, John Varley, and Roger Zelazny have each won twice out of eight, two, and three nominations, respectively. Silverberg's and Kress's eight nominations are the most of any authors, followed by Lucius Shepard and Michael Bishop at seven, and Kate Wilhelm and Avram Davidson with six. Bishop has the most nominations without receiving an award for novellas, though Wilhelm and Davidson have also not won an award. In the following table, the years correspond to the date of"
"Winners are listed in bold type. 1987 1988 Note: Date changed from year of publication to year of announcement, so no award was made in this year. 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 Note: Dorothy Porter's ""What a Piece of Work"" is the first verse novel to be shortlisted. 2001 Note: Matthew Kneale's novel is the first by a non-Australian to be shortlisted for the award. Hannie Rayson's, ""Life after George"", is the first play to be shortlisted. 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017"
"prize, and a winner is chosen. Unlike the real Man Booker (1969 through 2014), writers from outside the Commonwealth are also considered. In 2008, the winner for 1948 was Alan Paton's ""Cry, the Beloved Country"", beating Norman Mailer's ""The Naked and the Dead"", Graham Greene's ""The Heart of the Matter"" and Evelyn Waugh's ""The Loved One"". In 2015, the winner for 1915 was Ford Madox Ford's ""The Good Soldier"", beating ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" (John Buchan), ""Of Human Bondage"" (W. Somerset Maugham), ""Psmith, Journalist"" (P. G. Wodehouse) and ""The Voyage Out"" (Virginia Woolf). Booker Prize The Man Booker Prize for Fiction"
"Parrot"" (1984), ""England, England"" (1998), and ""Arthur & George"" (2005). He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. Two significant contemporary Irish novelists are John Banville (born 1945) and Colm Tóibín (born 1955). Banville is also an adapter of dramas, a screenwriter, and a writer of detective novels under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. Banville has won numerous awards: ""The Book of Evidence"" was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award in 1989; his eighteenth novel, ""The Sea"", won the Booker Prize in 2005; he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize in 2011."
"2015 with ""A Brief History of Seven Killings"" by Marlon James, and in 2016 with ""The Sellout"" by Paul Beatty, who became the first American winner of the prize. ""A Cupboard Full of Coats"" by Yvvette Edwards, a debut British novelist, was longlisted in 2011 for the Man Booker Prize and was shortlisted in 2012 for the Commonwealth Book Prize. ""Reasons She Goes to the Woods"" by Deborah Kay Davies was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction in 2014, as well as being shortlisted for the Encore Award in 2015. Also in 2015, Diane Cook's ""Man V. Nature"""
"The Princess and the Unicorn The Princess and the Unicorn is a children's fantasy novel by British-born American author Carol Hughes, who also wrote ""Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves"". The novel was published in hardcover on February 24, 2009, by Random House Books for Young Readers. This novel follows two characters: Princess Eleanor of England and a young fairy named Joyce. Joyce lives in Swinley Forest with a community of other fairies who rely on the forest's unicorn for survival. One day, Joyce follows the unicorn to the edge of the forest and is spotted by Princess Eleanor."
"having been nominated a total of six times, while seven other authors have won twice. Mike Resnick has had the most nominations at eight, and Ursula K. Le Guin and Greg Egan have been nominated seven times each. Fifteen other authors have been nominated at least four times, while Egan has the most number of nominations without winning. In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novelette was first published. Each year links to the corresponding ""year in literature"". Entries with a blue background have won the award; those with a"