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6 unusual facts about Man Booker Prize


Boomer lit

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach has been turned into a film and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce was long-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize.

Roddy Doyle

In 1993, Doyle published Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, winner of the 1993 Man Booker Prize, which showed the world as described, understood and misunderstood by a ten-year-old Dubliner.

Shani Mootoo

Her first full-length novel, Cereus Blooms at Night, published by Press Gang in 1996, was shortlisted for the Scotia Bank Giller Prize in 1997, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Chapters Books in Canada First Novel Award, and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize.

The Cornish Trilogy

What's Bred in the Bone was shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize.

Tomislav Torjanac

In 2006 Torjanac won the international competition to illustrate a new edition of Yann Martel’s 2002 Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi.

Youssef Ziedan

Ziedan's second novel is the historico-theological work Azazeel, which won the 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the so-called "Arabic Booker").


Death of Damilola Taylor

Writer Stephen Kelman was nominated for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his debut novel Pigeon English, inspired in part by the Taylor incident.

Grace Notes

In 1997, Grace Notes was shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Manners of Dying

Manners of Dying is a 2004 Canadian drama film based on the short story of the same name (1993) by Yann Martel, winner of the Man Booker Prize for his book, The Life of Pi.

Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx

In 1976 Wilson was one of three judges for the of the Man Booker Prize, the other judges being Walter Allen and Francis King.

Sea of Poppies

Sea of Poppies (2008) is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008.

Tom Rob Smith

It was awarded the 2008 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller of the year by the Crime Writers' Association, named on the long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, nominated for the 2008 Costa First Novel Award (former Whitbread).

University of Queensland Press

Many of UQP's recent fiction and poetry titles have won significant international acclaim, including Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang, which won the 2001 Man Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.


see also

Adiga

Aravind Adiga, author of the book White Tiger, winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2008

Lost Man Booker Prize

Literary agent and archivist Peter Straus has been credited with conceiving the idea of a Man Booker Prize for the missing year after wondering why Robertson Davies's 1970 novel Fifth Business had not been included in the Man Booker Prize shortlist.

Shanghai International Literary Festival

Activities include interactive forums, sessions in other languages such as Mandarin, Italian and French, as well as popular sessions with well-known writers including Man Booker Prize winners John Banville, Allan Hollinghurst, Thomas Keneally, Kiran Desai and Anne Enright.