Who won the 1978 Booker Prize with the novel The Sea, The Sea'?
"BBC Radio 3 in 1993. The actors included John Wood as Charles Arrowby, Joyce Redman as Hartley Fitch, with Sian Phillips, Sam Crane & Peter Kelly. Episode 3 included an interview with Iris Murdoch. A two-part adaptation of ""The Sea, the Sea"" by Robin Brooks appeared on BBC Radio 4 in August 2015. The actors included Jeremy Irons as Charles Arrowby, Maggie Steed as Hartley Fitch, and Simon Williams as James Arrowby. The Sea, the Sea The Sea, the Sea is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1978, it was her nineteenth novel. It won the 1978 Booker Prize."
"Book 18, Molly Bloom echoes the phrase in the closing moments of her monologue: ""and O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire."" Iris Murdoch wrote a novel called ""The Sea, The Sea"" which won the Man Booker Prize in 1978. The following year saw the release of The Warriors, based on the novel by Sol Yurick, which included at the end the line, ""The sea! The sea!"" Thalatta! Thalatta! Thálatta! Thálatta! ( — ""The Sea! The Sea!"") was the shouting of joy when the roaming 10,000 Greeks saw Euxeinos Pontos (the Black"
"""editor"" of the book in a series of afterwords. Though her novels differ markedly, and her style developed, themes recur. Her novels often include upper-middle-class male intellectuals caught in moral dilemmas, gay characters, refugees, Anglo-Catholics with crises of faith, empathetic pets, curiously ""knowing"" children and sometimes a powerful and almost demonic male ""enchanter"" who imposes his will on the other characters—a type of man Murdoch is said to have modelled on her lover, the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti. Murdoch was awarded the Booker Prize in 1978 for ""The Sea, the Sea"", a finely detailed novel about the power of love"
"Man Booker Prize, which in general promotes good, middlebrow fiction."" A film adaptation has been shot, with Banville having penned the script. The movie is directed by Stephen Brown and stars Ciarán Hinds (Max Morden), Rufus Sewell (Carlo Grace), Charlotte Rampling (Miss Vavasour), and Natascha McElhone (Connie Grace). The film is produced by Luc Roeg, scored by Andrew Hewitt, with cinematography by John Conroy. The Sea (novel) The Sea (2005) is the fifteenth book (thirteenth novel) by Irish writer John Banville. It won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. The story is told by Max Morden, a self-aware, retired art historian"
"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"
"The Sea (novel) The Sea (2005) is the fifteenth book (thirteenth novel) by Irish writer John Banville. It won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. The story is told by Max Morden, a self-aware, retired art historian attempting to reconcile himself to the deaths of those he loved as a child and as an adult. The novel is written as a reflective journal; the setting always in flux, wholly dependent upon the topic or theme Max feels inclined to write about. Despite the constant fluctuations, Max returns to three settings: his childhood memories of the Graces—a wealthy middle-class family living in"
"So I started to write The Sea in the third person. It was going to be very short, seventy pages or so, and solely about childhood holidays at the seaside—very bare. I worked on it for about eighteen months, but I couldn’t get it to work. And then, out of nowhere, the first-person narrative voice made itself heard again."" ""The Sea"" was completed in September 2004. The novel won the Man Booker Prize for 2005. The selection of ""The Sea"" for the Booker Prize was a satisfying victory for Banville, as his novel ""The Book of Evidence"" was shortlisted in"
"prize – Jo Bell, ‘The Icicle Garden’ 2nd prize – Dorothy Conventon, ‘The River Trevillet’ 3rd prize – Simon Pomery, ‘Love Poem to Black Pudding’ Highly Commended: John Gallas, ‘Once in Wrapping’, Roger Elkin, ‘Fishing in the Khabur River, Syria’, Ama Bolton, ‘Sea-change’. Judges: Sir Andrew Motion 1st prize – Angela Readman, ‘The Museum of Water’ 2nd prize – John Haslam, ‘Draw’ 3rd prize – Andrew Rudd, ‘His Wooden Shirt’ Highly Commended: Victor Tapner, ‘Holbein’s Wife’, Tania Hershman, ‘The Biologist & The Birds’ and ‘The Observer Paradox’, Sue Wood, ‘Indian Summer’, Samantha Weaver, ‘Smallholdings’. Judges: Kathryn Simmonds 1st prize –"
"the Sea"" were reprinted in quality paperback editions as part of its ""Bluejacket Books"" series Beach married Ingrid Schenck, daughter of Stanford University professor Hubert G. Schenck and Inga Bergström Schenck, in Palo Alto in 1944. They had four children: Inga-Marie (1945–1948), Edward A. (b. 1948), Hugh S. (b. 1949) and Ingrid Alice (b. 1952). During his service in the United States Navy, Beach was awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star with Gold Star in lieu of a second Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star with a combat Distinguished ""V"" and Gold Star in lieu of"
"William Golding Sir William Gerald Golding, (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel ""Lord of the Flies"", he won a Nobel Prize in Literature and was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction in 1980 for his novel ""Rites of Passage"", the first book in what became his sea trilogy, ""To the Ends of the Earth"". Golding was knighted in 1988. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, ""The Times"" ranked Golding third on their list of ""The 50 greatest British writers since 1945""."
"The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba. In 1953, ""The Old Man and the Sea"" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by"
"Sea"" <br> 1968 V. S. Naipaul, ""The Mimic Men""<br> 1969 Robert Gittings, """" <br> 1970 John Fowles, ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" <br> 1971 Nan Fairbrother, ""New Lives, New Landscapes"" <br> 1972 Kathleen Raine, ""The Lost Country"" <br> 1973 Brian Moore, ""Catholics""<br> 1974 Anthony Powell, ""Temporary Kings"" <br> 1975 Jon Stallworthy, ""Wilfred Owen"" <br> 1976 Seamus Heaney, ""North"" <br> 1977 Ronald Lewin, """" <br> 1978 Patrick Leigh Fermor, ""A Time of Gifts"" <br> 1979 Mark Girouard, ""Life in the English Country House"" <br> 1980 Thom Gunn, ""Selected Poems 1950–1975"" <br> 1981 Isabel Colegate, ""The Shooting Party"" <br> 1982 George Clare, ""Last"
"in 1968 where she was a student at the University of California, Berkeley. Dunham described him during the writing process as being like ""a murderer who's just come back from a particularly bloody killing"". They have separated. Banville lives with Patricia Quinn, former head of the Arts Council of Ireland. They have two daughters together. In 2011, he offered to donate his brain to The Little Museum of Dublin ""so visitors could marvel at how small it was"". Banville won the Booker Prize in 2005 for ""The Sea"", after having been on the short list in 1989 for ""The Book"
"Norman Mailer Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist. His novel ""The Naked and the Dead"" was published in 1948 and brought him renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel ""Armies of the Night"" won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award. His best-known work is widely considered to be ""The Executioner's Song"", the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In over six decades of work, Mailer had eleven best selling books in each of the seven decades after"
"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"
"on the city's beachfront. Novels Contains important books and articles about Mailer and his works, many of which are cited in this article. See Works above for a list of Mailer's first editions and Mailer's individual works for reviews. Norman Mailer Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist. His novel ""The Naked and the Dead"" was published in 1948 and brought him renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel ""Armies of the Night"" won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award."
"Iris Murdoch's Booker Prize-winning novel, ""The Sea, the Sea"" (1978). Other fictional works inspired by ""Anabasis"" include: Harold Coyle's novel ""The Ten Thousand"" (1993) shows the bulk of the US Forces in modern Europe fighting their way across and out of Germany, instead of laying down their weapons, after the Germans steal nuclear weapons that are being removed from Ukraine. The operational concept for the novel was based on Xenophon's account of the Ten Thousand. Paul Davies' novella ""Grace: A Story"" (1996) is a fantasy that details the progress of Xenophon's army through Armenia to Trabzon. Michael Curtis Ford's novel"
"The Mystery of the Sea The Mystery of the Sea, a mystery novel by Bram Stoker, was originally published in 1902. Stoker is best known for his 1897 novel ""Dracula"", but ""The Mystery of the Sea"" contains many of the same compelling elements. It tells the story of an Englishman living in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who meets and falls in love with an American heiress. She is involved with the intrigues of the Spanish–American War, and a complex plot involving second sight, kidnapping, and secret codes unfolds over the course of the novel. ""The Mystery of the Sea"" contains supernatural elements,"
"Ocean Sea (novel) Ocean Sea () is a 1993 novel by the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco. Its narrative revolves around the lives of a group of people gathered at a remote seaside hotel. The novel won the Viareggio Prize. Richard Bernstein reviewed the book for ""The New York Times"", and wrote: """"Ocean Sea"" unfolds in its poetically elliptical way. Mr. Baricco is a literary cubist, a stylist who looks simultaneously at the several sides of things. He switches from one rhetorical mode to another, from a kind of symbolist poetry to grand adventure narrative to picaresque comedy."" Bernstein continued: ""This"
"by Boyd Tonkin as ""possibly the most perverse decision in the history of the award"", though others defended the choice, citing the lyrical, stylistic prose as making the book worthy of the award. In his acceptance speech Banville states his pleasure that a work of art had won the prize, a statement that saw him being accused of arrogance. He later added, ""Whether ""The Sea"" is a successful work of art is not for me to say, but a work of art is what I set out to make. The kind of novels that I write very rarely win the"
"teacher, and a mysterious angel-like figure who survives a fire in the Blitz, ""The Paper Men"" (1984) which is about the conflict between a writer and his biographer, and a sea trilogy ""To the Ends of the Earth"", which includes the ""Rites of Passage"" (1980), ""Close Quarters"" (1987), and ""Fire Down Below"" (1989), the first book of which (originally intended as a stand-alone novel) won the Booker Prize. William Golding Sir William Gerald Golding, (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel ""Lord of the Flies"", he won a"
"(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"
"Booker Prize in 1979. Hilary Spurling, one of the judges, later said that the panel was unable to decide between ""A Bend in the River"" and ""Darkness Visible"", settling on ""Offshore"" as a compromise. The book's surprise win was greeted with a reaction that Fitzgerald's publisher said was ""so unpleasant a demonstration of naked spite"". Offshore (novel) Offshore is a 1979 novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. The book, her third novel, won the Booker Prize in the same year. The novel explores the emotional restlessness of houseboat dwellers who live neither fully on the water nor fully on the land. It"
"until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, for which he became the only Mississippi-born Nobel winner. Two of his works, ""A Fable"" (1954) and his last novel ""The Reivers"" (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel ""The Sound and the Fury"" sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were ""As I Lay Dying"" (1930) and ""Light in August"" (1932). ""Absalom, Absalom!"" (1936) appears on similar lists. Born William Cuthbert Falkner in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the first"
"""Chimera"" 1973: John Edward Williams — ""Augustus"" 1974: Thomas Pynchon — ""Gravity's Rainbow"" 1974: Isaac Bashevis Singer — ""A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories"" 1975: Robert Stone — ""Dog Soldiers"" 1975: Thomas Williams — ""The Hair of Harold Roux"" 1976: William Gaddis — ""J R"" 1977: Wallace Stegner — ""The Spectator Bird"" 1978: Mary Lee Settle — ""Blood Tie"" 1979: Tim O'Brien — ""Going After Cacciato"" For 1980 to 1983 this list covers the paired ""Fiction (hardcover)"" and ""Fiction (paperback)"" awards in that order. Hard and paper editions were distinguished only in these four years; none of the paperback"
"the Sea (ICES). His many publications include his magnum opus ""The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry and General Biology"" by Sverdrup, Martin W. Johnson and Richard H. Fleming (1942, new edition 1970) which formed the basic curriculum of oceanography for the next 40 years around the world. In 1928, he married Gudrun (Vaumund) Bronn (1893–1983) and adopted her daughter Anna Margrethe. He was awarded the William Bowie Medal by the American Geophysical Union, the Alexander Agassiz Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, the Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, the Vega Medal by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography"
"House offices in Pimlico in London. Vintage is now a paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers such as Philip Roth, Ian McEwan, Richard Yates, Willa Cather, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list, including writers such as Iris Murdoch, who won the Booker Prize for her novel, ""The Sea, the Sea"", and also has been longlisted in the category of Lost Man Booker Prize for her novel, ""A Fairly Honourable Defeat"". The imprint also publishes a huge variety of books while Vintage Classics publishes the great authors"
"The Old Man and the Sea (1958 film) The Old Man and the Sea is a 1958 American adventure drama film directed by John Sturges, who replaced the original uncredited director Fred Zinnemann. The screenplay by Peter Viertel was based on the novella of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film stars Spencer Tracy. Dimitri Tiomkin won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the film. James Wong Howe was also nominated for best color cinematography. The same year, Tracy was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The Old Man in the film"
"Good"" (1968), ""The Black Prince"" (1973), ""Henry and Cato"" (1976), ""The Sea, the Sea"" (1978, Booker Prize), ""The Philosopher's Pupil"" (1983), ""The Good Apprentice"" (1985), ""The Book and the Brotherhood"" (1987), ""The Message to the Planet"" (1989), and ""The Green Knight"" (1993). In 2008, ""The Times"" ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of ""The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"". Murdoch was born in Phibsborough, Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of Irene Alice (née Richardson, 1899–1985) and Wills John Hughes Murdoch. Her father, a civil servant, came from a mainly Presbyterian sheep farming family from Hillhall, County Down. In 1915, he"
"The Lake of Darkness The Lake of Darkness is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1980. It won the Arts Council National Book Award for Genre Fiction in 1981. The title comes from a quotation from Shakespeare's King Lear: Martin Urban is a young accountant leading the comfortable though somewhat dull life of a bachelor. Unexpectedly he wins a very large sum of money in a football pool (104,754 pounds 46 pence), but he decides to give half the money away to the poor. Then Francesca enters into his life, a mysterious young woman who captures"
"of the Sea"" is full of complex themes that are worthy of critical attention. Google Books. The Mystery of the Sea The Mystery of the Sea, a mystery novel by Bram Stoker, was originally published in 1902. Stoker is best known for his 1897 novel ""Dracula"", but ""The Mystery of the Sea"" contains many of the same compelling elements. It tells the story of an Englishman living in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who meets and falls in love with an American heiress. She is involved with the intrigues of the Spanish–American War, and a complex plot involving second sight, kidnapping, and secret"
"Shirley Hazzard Shirley Hazzard (30 January 1931 – 12 December 2016) was an Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She was born in Australia and also held United States citizenship. Hazzard's 1970 novel, ""The Bay of Noon"", was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010; her 2003 novel ""The Great Fire"" won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction, the Miles Franklin Award and the William Dean Howells Medal. Hazzard also wrote non-fiction, including two books based on her experiences working at the United Nations Secretariat, which were highly critical of the organisation. Hazzard was born in"
"to Europe. They initially lived in Paris, with visits to Italy, and in the early 1970s settled in Capri. They also kept an apartment in New York City. Steegmuller died in 1994. Hazzard died in New York City on 12 December 2016, aged 85. She was reported to have had dementia. Shirley Hazzard Shirley Hazzard (30 January 1931 – 12 December 2016) was an Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She was born in Australia and also held United States citizenship. Hazzard's 1970 novel, ""The Bay of Noon"", was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010; her"