"Richard Flanagan Richard Miller Flanagan (born 1961) is an Australian novelist from Tasmania. ""Considered by many to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation"", according to ""The Economist"", each of his novels has attracted major praise and received numerous awards and honours. He also has written and directed feature films. He won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for ""The Narrow Road to the Deep North"". The ""New York Review of Books"" described Flanagan as ""among the most versatile writers in the English language. That he is also an environmental activist and the author of numerous influential works of nonfiction"
"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"""
"(2008) tells two parallel stories: about the novelist Charles Dickens in England, and Mathinna, an Aboriginal orphan adopted by Sir John Franklin, the colonial governor of Van Diemen's Land, and his wife, Lady Jane Franklin. As well as being a ""New Yorker"" Book of the Year and ""Observer"" Book of the Year, it won the Queensland Premier's Prize, the Western Australian Premier's Prize and the Tasmania Book Prize. His sixth novel was ""The Narrow Road to the Deep North"" (2013). The life story of Dorrigo Evans, a flawed war hero and survivor of the Death Railway, it has been hailed"
"The shortlist for the 2014 prize was announced in August, and the winner was announced on 10 October. The 2014 winner was Paul Kingsnorth for ""The Wake"". The 2015 winner was journalist Dan Davies for ""In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile."" The 2016 winner was David Szalay for ""All That Man Is"". The 2017 winner was Denise Mina for ""The Long Drop"". The 2018 winner was Jesse Ball for ""Census"". Gordon Burn Gordon Burn (16 January 1948 – 17 July 2009) was an English writer born in Newcastle upon Tyne and the author of four novels"
"Anthology"". His first novel, ""The Same Earth"", was published in 2008, followed in 2010 by ""The Last Warner Woman"". That same year saw the publication of his poetry collection ""A Light Song of Light"". In 2013 his ""Writing Down the Vision: Essays & Prophecies"" was published, and in 2014 a collection of poems for which he was awarded the Forward Prize, ""The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion"". Hilary Mantel chose ""The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion"" as one of her favourite books of 2014. This compilation includes a poem on unusual Jamaican place-names, such"
"from Cairo to Cape Town across Africa (""Dark Star Safari""). In 2015, he published """"Deep South"""" detailing 4 road trips through the southern states of the United States. He is noted for his rich descriptions of people and places, laced with a heavy streak of irony, or even misanthropy. Nonfiction by Theroux includes ""Sir Vidia's Shadow"", an account of his personal and professional friendship with Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul, which ended abruptly after 30 years. His 2017 semi-autobiographical novel ""Mother Land"" (and an earlier related short story set in Puerto Rico) includes an older son from a college relationship;"
"2015: Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep 2014: Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming 2013: Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck 2012: William Alexander, ""Goblin Secrets"" 2011: Thanhha Lai, ""Inside Out & Back Again"" 2010: Kathryn Erskine, ""Mockingbird"" 2009: Phillip Hoose, """" (about Claudette Colvin) 2008: Judy Blundell, ""What I Saw and How I Lied"" 2007: Sherman Alexie, ""The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian"" (fiction) 2006: M. T. Anderson, """" 2005: Jeanne Birdsall, """" 2004: Pete Hautman, ""Godless"" 2003: Polly Horvath, ""The Canning Season"" 2002: Nancy Farmer, ""The House of the Scorpion"" 2001: Virginia Euwer Wolff, ""True Believer"" 2000: Gloria Whelan,"
"Man Booker Prize in the first year that American works of fiction were eligible, and won the 2014 Dylan Thomas Prize. Joshua Ferris Joshua Ferris (born 1974) is an American author best known for his debut 2007 novel ""Then We Came to the End"". The book is a comedy about the American workplace, told in the first-person plural. It takes place in a fictitious Chicago ad agency that is experiencing a downturn at the end of the '90s Internet boom. Ferris graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in English and Philosophy in 1996. He then moved to"
"(1982): for ""The Accidental Tourist"" (1985): for ""Breathing Lessons"" (1988): for ""Ladder of Years"" (1995): <nowiki>*</nowiki> Finalist, The Orange Prize for Fiction 1996 for ""Digging to America"" (2006): <nowiki>*</nowiki> Finalist, The Orange Prize for Fiction 2007 for ""A Spool of Blue Thread"" (2015): <nowiki>*</nowiki> Finalist, The Man Booker Prize 2015 <nowiki>*</nowiki> Finalist, The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015 for Lifetime achievement: <nowiki>*</nowiki> Finalist, The Man Booker International Prize 2011 Anne Tyler Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published 22 novels, the best known of which are ""Dinner"
"The Frost Place. She is a founding editor and the director of Four Way Books, a literary press in New York City, where she lives with her husband. ""The Thin Wall"" ( university of Pittsburgh Press, 2017) Martha Rhodes Martha Rhodes (born Boston, Massachusetts) is an American poet, teacher, and publisher. She is author of five poetry collections, most recently ""The Thin Wall"" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017), ""The Beds"" (Autumn House Press, 2012), ""Mother Quiet"" (Zoo Press, 2004. Her second collection, ""Perfect Disappearance,"" won the 2000 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press). ""At the Gate"" was released in"
"including Kittitian Caryl Phillips (who has lived in the UK since one month of age); Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian immigrant to the United States; Anthony Kellman from Barbados, who divides his time between Barbados and the United States; Andrea Levy of the United Kingdom; Jamaicans Alecia McKenzie, who has lived in Belgium, Singapore and France, and Colin Channer and Marlon James, the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel ""A Brief History of Seven Killings"" (2014) (as well as ""John Crow's Devil"", ""The Book of Night Women"", the unpublished screenplay ""Dead Men"", and the short story ""Under Cover of Darkness""),"
"in 1983 and was the recipient of two Ingram Merrill Foundation grants. He lives in New York City. Ted Mooney Ted Mooney (born in Dallas, Texas) is an American novelist and short story writer; he has published four novels: ""Easy Travel to Other Planets"" (1981), ""Traffic and Laughter"" (1990), ""Singing into the Piano"" (1998), and ""The Same River Twice"" (2010). Mooney has also served as the senior editor of ""Art in America"" from 1977 to 2008 and currently teaches at the Yale University Graduate School of Art. Mooney's first and most successful novel, ""Easy Travel to Other Planets"", was awarded"
"2014. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015. It was runner-up for the 2015 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction and won the 2015 Ohioana Library Association Book Award for Fiction. Doerr also writes a column on science books for the ""Boston Globe"" and is a contributor to ""The Morning News"", an online magazine. From 2007 to 2010, he was the writer-in-residence for the state of Idaho. Doerr is married, has twin sons and lives in Boise, Idaho. Anthony Doerr Anthony Doerr (born October 27, 1973) is an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread"
"Deep South (book) Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads is a 2015 non-fiction book authored by Paul Theroux. Critical reception has been mixed. ""Deep South"" received reviews from the ""Financial Times"" and ""The Independent"", the latter of which wrote ""At the end of the road, the veteran traveller catches a glimpse of an unfamiliar figure in the eyes of those he has met: to them, he realises with a profound shock, he is old. Perhaps he has failed to evade one cliché of the quest narrative – that the final discovery of the traveller is oneself – yet ""Deep"
"novel."" Among the books on the longlist, it was the favourite to win the Man Booker Prize. However, on 9 September 2008, the Booker nominee shortlist was announced, and the novel failed to make the list. The book received the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2009 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. He is also the author of a collection of short stories, ""Good Trouble"" (2018) and a non-fiction book, ""Blood-Dark Track: A Family History"", which was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002 and a book of the year for the ""Economist"" and the ""Irish Times"". Additionally,"
"became eligible in 2014. Paul Beatty Paul Beatty (born June 9, 1962) is an American author and an associate professor of writing at Columbia University. In 2016, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize for his novel ""The Sellout"". It was the first time a writer from the United States was honored with the Man Booker. Born in Los Angeles in 1962, Beatty received an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College and an MA in psychology from Boston University. He is a 1980 graduate of El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills,"
"When reviewing ""The Book of Night Women"", another critic explains “Rape, torture, murder and other dehumanizing acts propel the narrative, never failing to shock in both their depravity and their humanness. It is this complex intertwining that makes James’s book so disturbing and so eloquent."" Marlon James (novelist) Marlon James (born 24 November 1970) is a Jamaican writer. He has published three novels: ""John Crow's Devil"" (2005), ""The Book of Night Women"" (2009), and ""A Brief History of Seven Killings"" (2014), winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize. Now living in Minneapolis, James teaches literature at Macalester College in St."
"with New York University since 1973 and is also the editor of more than 220 research volumes for libraries. His books have won awards and his research, writing and lectures have earned praise from such noted figures as John Hope Franklin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., John Henrik Clarke, Howard Zinn, James M. McPherson, Alice Walker, Cornel West, Ivan Van Sertima, Betty Shabazz, and Dr. Ralph Bunche. In 2012 he received the National Underground Railroad to Freedom Award by the National Park Service and delivered the Keynote Address ""The Underground Railroad that Ran South to Freedom,""at its National Conference; and the"
"United States awards. In 2014, she was awarded the Queensland Literary Awards Griffith University children's Book Award and the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Notable Award for ""Refuge"", which was also shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Award in two categories – Children's and Community Relations. Her book ""The Road to Gundagai"", was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Awards. Her novels ""Hitler's Daughter"" and ""To the Moon and Back"" have been awarded the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award in 2000 and 2005, and ""Pennies for Hitler"" won the 2013 New South Wales Premier's"
"Nautilus Book Award for Investigative Journalism as well as the Nautilus Book Award Grand Prize. He coauthored ""Kuei: a Conversation on Racism"", book about racism against First Nations People in Canada, written in epistolary form with the Innu poet Natasha Kanapé-Fontaine. His most recent novel, ""Into the Sun"", about the Civilian Surge in Afghanistan, won the 2017 Midwest Book Award for Literary Fiction and has been described by National Book Award-winning author Phil Klay as a ""Ferociously intelligent and intensely gripping portrait of the expatriate community in Kabul."" It was a CLMP Firecracker Award nominee, was long-listed for the Prix"
"in Christmasland and features characters from the novel. ""NOS4A2"" was nominated for the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. The book opens in a hospital in 2008. Charles Manx, a convicted child abductor, briefly wakes from a coma to threaten a nurse. Her coworkers don't believe her claim, because he exhibits only limited brain function. The book flashes back to 1986. Young Vic McQueen discovers that she can find lost things by riding her bicycle through the Shorter Way Bridge. The Bridge always takes her to the location of whatever she is seeking. Traveling this way takes a mental"
"Nebraska, and was named one of the 5 Best Novels of the Year by ""USA Today"". His short fiction has been included in ""Best American Short Stories"", ""The O. Henry Prize Collection"" and ""The Pushcart Prize Collection"", and ""What Happened to Tully,"" which first appeared in ""The Atlantic Monthly"", was made into the movie ""Tully"". Additionally, with his wife, Laura Rhoton McNeal, he has co-authored four YA novels (""Crooked""; ""Zipped""; ""Crushed""; ""The Decoding of Lana Morris""), all published by Knopf. ""Far Far Away"", his newest book for younger readers, was published in 2013 and was a National Book Award Finalist,"
"a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer at the ""Los Angeles Times"". Tobar had exclusive access to the miners and in October 2014 published an official account titled ""Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free"". Tobar described the previous books published on the topic as ""quick and dirty"" with ""almost no cooperation from the miners."" These books include ""Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert"" (August 2011) by Marc Aronson; ""Buried Alive!: How 33 Miners Survived 69 Days Deep Under the Chilean"
"Neal Shusterman Neal Shusterman (born November 12, 1962) is an American writer of young-adult fiction. He won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature for his book ""Challenger Deep"". Shusterman was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Even from a young age, Shusterman was an avid reader. At age 16, Shusterman and his family moved to Mexico City. He finished high school there at the American School Foundation and quotes, ""Having an international experience changed my life, giving me a fresh perspective on the world, and a sense of confidence I might not have otherwise."" He attended the"
"In Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel ""The Narrow Road to the Deep North"" (2013), the main character, Dorrigo Evans, meets the love of his life at the launch of ""Angry Penguins"". Angry Penguins Angry Penguins was an Australian literary and artistic avant-garde movement of the 1940s. The movement was stimulated by a modernist magazine of the same name published by the surrealist poet Max Harris, who founded the magazine in 1940, at the age of 18. ""Angry Penguins"" was first published in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. The title is derived from a phrase in Harris' poem ""Mithridatum of"
"number of books including ""Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down"", ""Duke Ellington"", ""Seven Candles for Kwanzaa"", and ""Dear Benjamin Banneker"" She was chosen to deliver the 2014 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture at the University of Minnesota Libraries, Children's Literature Research Collections, Saturday, May 3, 2014 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (CDT). She was cited in January 2013 for ""significant contributions to literature for young people provided through a body of work that brings a deeper understanding of African American heritage"". She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. • ""Rhythm Ride"" (2015) • ""The Red Pencil"""
"David Grossman David Grossman (; born January 25, 1954) is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and have won numerous prizes. He addressed the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in his 2008 novel, ""To the End of the Land"". Since that book's publication he has written a children's book, an opera for children and several poems. His 2014 book, ""Falling Out of Time"", deals with the grief of parents in the aftermath of their children's death. In 2017, he was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in conjunction with his frequent collaborator and translator, Jessica Cohen,"
"Marlon James (novelist) Marlon James (born 24 November 1970) is a Jamaican writer. He has published three novels: ""John Crow's Devil"" (2005), ""The Book of Night Women"" (2009), and ""A Brief History of Seven Killings"" (2014), winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize. Now living in Minneapolis, James teaches literature at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. James was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to parents who were both in the Jamaican police: his mother (who gave him his first prose book, a collection of stories by O. Henry) became a detective and his father (from whom James took a love"
"Nicole Krauss Nicole Krauss (born August 18, 1974) is an American author best known for her four novels ""Man Walks Into a Room"" (2002), ""The History of Love"" (2005), ""Great House"" (2010) and ""Forest Dark"" (2017). Her fiction has been published in ""The New Yorker"", ""Harper's"", ""Esquire"", and ""Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40"", and has been collected in ""Best American Short Stories 2003"" and ""Best American Short Stories 2008"". Her novels have been translated into 35 languages. In 2010, she was selected as one of ""The New Yorker's"" ""20 Under 40"" writers to watch. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won"
"New York. Nicole Krauss Nicole Krauss (born August 18, 1974) is an American author best known for her four novels ""Man Walks Into a Room"" (2002), ""The History of Love"" (2005), ""Great House"" (2010) and ""Forest Dark"" (2017). Her fiction has been published in ""The New Yorker"", ""Harper's"", ""Esquire"", and ""Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40"", and has been collected in ""Best American Short Stories 2003"" and ""Best American Short Stories 2008"". Her novels have been translated into 35 languages. In 2010, she was selected as one of ""The New Yorker's"" ""20 Under 40"" writers to watch. In 2011, Nicole"
"science fiction novel, won the 2007 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and James Tiptree, Jr. Award, and was shortlisted for the 2008 Arthur C. Clarke Award. In America, the novel was published under the title ""Daughters of the North"". She was invited to become writer-in-residence by the Grasmere based Ullswater Trust – an organisation which supports and encourages writers – while working on the book. Her novel ""How to Paint a Dead Man"" (2009) was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2013, she was included in the Granta list of 20 best young writers. In October 2013, she won the"
"as ""All the Way"" (which later won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Play), ""33 Variations"", and ""The Piano Lesson"". Four playwrights have won the award multiple times: Jane Martin has won the award four times (for ""Talking With,"" ""Keely and Du"", ""Jack and Jill,"" and ""Anton in Show Business""). August Wilson has won three times (for ""Fences"", ""The Piano Lesson"", and ""Two Trains Running""). Lee Blessing and Bill Cain have each won twice; Blessing won for ""A Walk in the Woods"" and ""A Body of Water"", and Cain won for ""Equivocation"" and ""Nine Circles"". Blessing is the only playwright"
"are grossly misrepresented to make him appear in the worst possible light, or are outright false. Yes, Greg is a bad manager and accountant, and he is the first to admit that, but he is also a tireless humanitarian with a crucially important mission."" Jon Krakauer Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writings about the outdoors, especially mountain climbing. He is the author of best-selling non-fiction books—""Into the Wild""; ""Into Thin Air""; ""Under the Banner of Heaven""; and """"—as well as numerous magazine articles. He was a member of an"