"him in advance whether he had won. His was one of two books considered likely to win, the other being ""Rites of Passage"" by William Golding. The judges decided only 30 minutes before the ceremony, giving the prize to Golding. Both novels had been seen as favourites to win leading up to the prize, and the dramatic ""literary battle"" between two senior writers made front page news. In 1981, nominee John Banville wrote a letter to ""The Guardian"" requesting that the prize be given to him so that he could use the money to buy every copy of the longlisted"
"Rite of Passage (novel) Rite of Passage is a science fiction novel by American writer Alexei Panshin. Published in 1968 as an Ace Science Fiction Special, this novel about a shipboard teenager's coming of age won that year's Nebula Award, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1969. ""Rite of Passage"" is told as a flashback by Mia Havero, the daughter of the Chairman of the Ship's Council, after she has completed her own rite of passage, also known as ""Trial"". She has survived for thirty days on a colony planet with minimal supplies as part"
"1966), “A Sense of Direction” (""Amazing"", 1969), and “Arpad” (""Quark 2"", 1971). In “Arpad” there is a brief cameo appearance by Mia and Jimmy. All three stories are collected in Panshin’s ""Farewell to Yesterday’s Tomorrow"" (Berkley, 1975). Rite of Passage (novel) Rite of Passage is a science fiction novel by American writer Alexei Panshin. Published in 1968 as an Ace Science Fiction Special, this novel about a shipboard teenager's coming of age won that year's Nebula Award, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1969. ""Rite of Passage"" is told as a flashback by Mia Havero,"
"his own journal to his godfather, as he fears it may not show him in the best light. He concludes that he does not have a choice, and eventually he seals the journal, in order to protect what he has written. ""Rites of Passage"" won the 1980 Booker Prize. Golding begins ""Close Quarters"" (1987) from Talbot's point of view and soon after he completed his first journal on the 6-month voyage to Australia. Talbot starts a new journal in a different tone, as this volume will not be presented to his godfather. He describes his romantic feelings for a young"
"whole was adapted by the late Leigh Jackson and Tony Basgallop for a 2005 BBC drama mini-series of the same name, directed by David Attwood and starring Benedict Cumberbatch. It aired in the United States in PBS' 2006 season of ""Masterpiece Theatre"". It became available in 2016 on Netflix and Hulu streaming. ""Rites of Passage"" (1980) is an account of a six-month voyage to Australia in the early 19th century by an assorted group of British migrants on a converted man-of-war. It is in the form of a journal written by Edmund Talbot, a young aristocrat. His influential godfather has"
"Rites of Passage (1999 film) Rites of Passage is a 1999 thriller film written and directed by Victor Salva and starring Dean Stockwell, James Remar, and Jason Behr. The film begins with two recently escaped convicts – Frank (James Remar) and Red (Jaimz Woolvett) – approaching a group of campers. Frank, the elder of the pair, shoots and kills the campers. D.J. Farraday (Robert Glen Keith) discovers that his father, Del (Stockwell), has been having an affair. D.J. asks Del to meet him at the family's cabin by the lake, where D.J. intends to confront him about his adultery. When"
"Rituals (novel) Rituals () is a 1980 novel by Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom. The novel's narrative follows two friends, one who breaks rules frequently and one who follows them strictly. It was Nooteboom's first novel in 17 years. After finishing ""The Knight Has Died"" (1963), he had worked as a journalist, written poetry, and traveled around the world, ""looking for something to write about"". ""Rituals"" won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize and the Pegasus Prize. It was published in an English translation in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press, which also published English translations of other works by Nooteboom through 1990."
"The Chumash jimsonweed ceremony portrayed in the film was accurately represented according to anthropologist J.P. Harrington's extensive field notes from Chumash informants in the early 1900s. Rites of Passage (2012 film) Rites of Passage is a 2012 American thriller film written and directed by W. Peter Iliff. The film stars Wes Bentley, Kate Maberly, Ryan Donowho, Christian Slater and Stephen Dorff. Nathan (Ryan Donowho), a studious anthropology student, decries his position in a society that fails to provide a ceremony to mark his transition into manhood. Professor Nash (Stephen Dorff), an unethical teacher who openly pursues sexual liaisons with his"
"Rites of Passage (2012 film) Rites of Passage is a 2012 American thriller film written and directed by W. Peter Iliff. The film stars Wes Bentley, Kate Maberly, Ryan Donowho, Christian Slater and Stephen Dorff. Nathan (Ryan Donowho), a studious anthropology student, decries his position in a society that fails to provide a ceremony to mark his transition into manhood. Professor Nash (Stephen Dorff), an unethical teacher who openly pursues sexual liaisons with his female students, is intrigued when Nathan tells him his family's unoccupied but functional ranch is the site of an ancient Indian burial ground. Nathan convinces Professor"
"The novel was adapted as a 1988 French-language film with the same title, directed by Herbert Curiel. The novel was praised by critics. It won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize and the Pegasus Prize. Rituals (novel) Rituals () is a 1980 novel by Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom. The novel's narrative follows two friends, one who breaks rules frequently and one who follows them strictly. It was Nooteboom's first novel in 17 years. After finishing ""The Knight Has Died"" (1963), he had worked as a journalist, written poetry, and traveled around the world, ""looking for something to write about"". ""Rituals"" won the"
"the pale fluorescent gloom of laundromats, pockets filled with lint-covered jellybeans, the smell of crabcakes and coconut oil on a Delaware beach, grapy veins in the calves of middle-aged mothers. As a chronicler of domestic fuss, Tyler can be compared to John Updike"". Morgan's Passing Morgan's Passing is a 1980 novel by Anne Tyler. It won the 1980 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction and was nominated for both the American Book Awards and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Morgan Gower is a middle-aged husband and father who works at Cullen's Hardware Store. Morgan's life is boring: His house"
"Morgan's Passing Morgan's Passing is a 1980 novel by Anne Tyler. It won the 1980 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction and was nominated for both the American Book Awards and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Morgan Gower is a middle-aged husband and father who works at Cullen's Hardware Store. Morgan's life is boring: His house is dominated by his wife and daughters who generally ignore him, and his workplace is too slow for his active mind, his wit, and his imagination. In short, his life has fallen far short of his heroic aspirations, and he keeps a closet"
"Sheila Fugard published her first novel, ""The Castaways"", which won the Olive Schreiner Prize. Subsequently, she published other novels, including ""Rite of Passage"", in 1976, and ""A Revolutionary Woman"", in 1983. ""A Revolutionary Woman"", her best-known novel, takes place in the 1920s in the Karoo district of South Africa and tells the story of a female disciple of Mahatma Gandhi who gets entangled in a rape case between a young colored boy and a young retarded Boer girl. ""Rite of Passage"" concerns a doctor and a young boy traumatized by a tribal circumcision ceremony. Fugard has also published collected poems,"
"Middle Passage (novel) Middle Passage (1990) is a historical novel by Charles R. Johnson about the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship. Set in 1830, it presents a personal and historical perspective of the illegal slave trade in the United States, telling the story of Rutherford Calhoun, a freed slave who unknowingly boards a slave ship bound for Africa in order to escape a forced marriage. It won the 1990 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. The protagonist is Rutherford Calhoun, a freed slave, who flees from New Orleans on a ship called the ""Republic"" to escape being"
"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"
"Fiction, 1998. Middle Passage (novel) Middle Passage (1990) is a historical novel by Charles R. Johnson about the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship. Set in 1830, it presents a personal and historical perspective of the illegal slave trade in the United States, telling the story of Rutherford Calhoun, a freed slave who unknowingly boards a slave ship bound for Africa in order to escape a forced marriage. It won the 1990 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. The protagonist is Rutherford Calhoun, a freed slave, who flees from New Orleans on a ship called the ""Republic"" to"
"Richard B Goodwin Richard B Goodwin (born 13 September 1934, Bombay, India) is a British film producer. In a career spanning 40 years, Richard Goodwin has been involved in a number of well-known British films. As a film producer, he received an Academy Award nomination for A Passage to India (1984), as well as BAFTA nominations. His filmography includes: Romeo and Juliet, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, The Mirror Crack'd, Evil under the Sun, A Passage to India, Little Dorrit, and Seven Years in Tibet. Born in Bombay, in 1934, Richard"
"by Goodwin, was published by Collins. Later, Goodwin went on to shoot and produce a collection of films, titled ""Barging Through Europe"", on his travels, on another boat, the Regina, depicting the vanishing trades of France. Richard B Goodwin Richard B Goodwin (born 13 September 1934, Bombay, India) is a British film producer. In a career spanning 40 years, Richard Goodwin has been involved in a number of well-known British films. As a film producer, he received an Academy Award nomination for A Passage to India (1984), as well as BAFTA nominations. His filmography includes: Romeo and Juliet, The Tales"
"Patrick Ness Patrick Ness (born 17 October 1971) is a British-American author, journalist, lecturer and screenwriter. Born in the United States, Ness moved to London and holds dual citizenship. He is best known for his books for young adults, including the ""Chaos Walking"" trilogy and ""A Monster Calls"". Ness won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians both in 2011 and in 2012, for ""Monsters of Men"" and ""A Monster Calls"", recognising each as the best new book for children or adults published in the UK. He is one of seven writers to win two Medals (no one has"
"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 anniversary of the prize. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations. His fourth novel, ""The Satanic Verses"" (1988), was the subject of a major"
"comments and advice. ""Rites"" explores the cruelties of men in groups, and the tensions as they struggle over status and place in their artificial society on the ship. In 2005 the books were adapted as a BBC drama serial starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Named ""To The Ends of the Earth,"" the series was directed by David Attwood. To the Ends of the Earth To the Ends of the Earth is the name given to a trilogy of nautical, relational novels—""Rites of Passage"" (1980), ""Close Quarters"" (1987), and ""Fire Down Below"" (1989)—by British author William Golding. Set on a former British man-of-war"
"The Passage (Cronin novel) The Passage is a novel by Justin Cronin, published in 2010 by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. ""The Passage"" debuted at #3 on the ""New York Times"" hardcover fiction best seller list, and remained on the list for seven additional weeks. It is the first novel of a completed trilogy; the second book ""The Twelve"" was released in 2012, and the third book """"The City of Mirrors"""" released in 2016. The novel and its sequels were to be adapted into a film trilogy; however, they will now be written for television."
"Hugo award in 1967, and then published in book form by Advent. Panshin discusses reactions to this work on his website ""The Abyss of Wonder"". A number of Alexei Panshin's books (including ""The World Beyond the Hill"") are presently being republished by Phoenix Pick, an imprint of Arc Manor Publishers. Alexei Panshin Alexei Panshin (born August 14, 1940) is an American writer and science fiction (SF) critic. He has written several critical works and several novels, including the 1968 Nebula Award-winning novel ""Rite of Passage"" and the 1990 Hugo Award-winning study of science fiction ""The World Beyond the Hill"" (written"
"""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"
"Carey 93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera 94. Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie 95. LA Confidential James Ellroy 96. Wise Children Angela Carter 97. Atonement Ian McEwan 98. Northern Lights Philip Pullman 99. American Pastoral Philip Roth 100. Austerlitz W. G. Sebald 1. 1. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (1678) 2. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719) 3. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726) 4. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1748) 5. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (1749) 6. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1759) 7. Emma by"
"Cees Nooteboom Cees Nooteboom (; born 31 July 1933) is a Dutch novelist, poet, and journalist. After the attention received by his novel ""Rituelen"" (""Rituals"" (1980), which received the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an English edition, published in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press of the United States. LSU Press published his first two novels in English in the following years, as well as other works through 1990. Harcourt (now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and Grove Press have since published some of his works in English. Nooteboom has won numerous literary awards"
"Book Critics Circle Award 1997, has been called Fitzgerald's masterpiece. In 1999 it was adapted and dramatised for BBC Radio by Peter Wolf. A collection of Fitzgerald's short stories, ""The Means of Escape"", and a volume of her essays, reviews and commentaries, ""A House of Air"", were published posthumously. In 2013 the first full biography of Fitzgerald appeared: ""Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life"" by Hermione Lee. Penelope Fitzgerald Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was an English Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008, ""The Times"" included her in a list of ""the 50 greatest British"
"Transit (Cooper novel) Transit is a science fiction novel by English writer Edmund Cooper, published in February 1964 by Faber and Faber. The protagonist Richard Avery reaches down to touch an object, and is whisked 79 light years away from Earth where he finds himself and three other people in a battle-to-the-death situation against alien humanoids, the ""Golden Ones"", who have been deposited in the same place, and are equally confused why they are there. When the protagonist finally reaches the ""Golden Ones"", they are of the opinion that it is merely a game, with the killing of human beings"
"Timescape Timescape is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Gregory Benford (with unbilled co-author Hilary Foister, Benford's sister-in-law, who is credited as having ""contributed significantly to the manuscript""). It won the 1981 Nebula and 1980 British Science Fiction Award, and the 1981 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The novel was widely hailed by both critics of science fiction and mainstream literature for its fusion of detailed character development and interpersonal drama with more standard science fiction fare such as time travel and ecological issues. Pocket Books used the title of this book for"
"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 the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Through 2012 he is one of seven writers to win two Carnegies; no one has won three. He was also a highly commended runner-up for ""Eva"" (1988) and four times a commended runner-up. For his contributions as a"
"Charles R. Johnson Charles Richard Johnson (born April 23, 1948) is an African-American scholar and the author of novels, short stories, screen-and-teleplays, and essays, most often with a philosophical orientation. Johnson has directly addressed the issues of black life in America in novels such as ""Dreamer"" and ""Middle Passage"". ""Middle Passage"" won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1990 making him the second African-American man to receive this prize after Ralph Ellison in 1953. Johnson's acceptance speech was a tribute to Ellison. Johnson received a MacArthur Fellowship or ""Genius Grant"" in 1998. He is also the recipient of"
"The Passages of H.M. The Passages of H.M. is a 2011 historical novel written by Jay Parini about the life of Herman Melville. The novel was well received. ""The New York Times"" said, ""Parini's 'Passages' is a spokesman for the 'fiction is more true than fact' camp. Organized as a series of episodes, many of them imaginative reconstructions of what may have transpired on Melville's known sea voyages, 'Passages' purports to reveal the workings of Melville's mind as he finds his vocation as a writer."" The Washington Post called the novel ""A thoughtful re-imagining of the man who remains America's"
"James Poe James Poe (October 4, 1921 – January 24, 1980) was an American film and television screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the movies ""Around the World in 80 Days"" for which he jointly won an Academy Award in 1956, ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"", ""Summer and Smoke"", ""Lilies of the Field"", and ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"". He also worked as a writer on the radio shows ""Escape"" and ""Suspense"", writing the scripts for some of their best episodes, most notably ""Three Skeleton Key"", ""Blood Bath"" and ""The Present Tense"", all of which starred"