Something to aim for...
Looking for a good book to read? One that will inspire you to write your own? This is the shortlist of novels in the running for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, one of the biggest book prizes in the world:
Desai, Kiran: The Inheritance of Loss - Hamish Hamilton
Grenville, Kate: The Secret River - Canongate
Hyland, M.J.: Carry Me Down - Canongate
Matar, Hisham: In the Country of Men - Viking
St Aubyn, Edward: Mother’s Milk - Picador
Waters, Sarah: The Night Watch – Virago
This year’s prizewinner was announced yesterday. The prize went to Kiran Desai for her novel ‘The Inheritance of Loss’. Two interesting facts about the author: 1) She is the daughter of Anita Desai who has herself been shortlisted for the prize on three previous occasions. 2) She is currently a student in the University of Columbia’s creative writing course.
Want to know how to write your own prizewinner? This is Hermione Lee, Chair of the Judges this year:"Each of these novels has what we as judges were most looking for, a distinctive original voice, an audacious imagination that takes readers to undiscovered countries of the mind, a strong power of story-telling and a historical truthfulness. Each of these novels creates a world you inhabit without question or distrust while you are reading, and a mood, an atmosphere, which lasts long after the reading is over."
The winner receives £50,000 with a guaranteed increase in sales and recognition worldwide. Each of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, receives £2,500 and a designer bound edition of their own book.
The six shortlisted books for 2006 were chosen from a longlist of 19, details of which can be found at www.themanbookerprize.com Maybe this should be your reading list for the next few months?
Desai, Kiran: The Inheritance of Loss - Hamish Hamilton
Grenville, Kate: The Secret River - Canongate
Hyland, M.J.: Carry Me Down - Canongate
Matar, Hisham: In the Country of Men - Viking
St Aubyn, Edward: Mother’s Milk - Picador
Waters, Sarah: The Night Watch – Virago
This year’s prizewinner was announced yesterday. The prize went to Kiran Desai for her novel ‘The Inheritance of Loss’. Two interesting facts about the author: 1) She is the daughter of Anita Desai who has herself been shortlisted for the prize on three previous occasions. 2) She is currently a student in the University of Columbia’s creative writing course.
Want to know how to write your own prizewinner? This is Hermione Lee, Chair of the Judges this year:"Each of these novels has what we as judges were most looking for, a distinctive original voice, an audacious imagination that takes readers to undiscovered countries of the mind, a strong power of story-telling and a historical truthfulness. Each of these novels creates a world you inhabit without question or distrust while you are reading, and a mood, an atmosphere, which lasts long after the reading is over."
The winner receives £50,000 with a guaranteed increase in sales and recognition worldwide. Each of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, receives £2,500 and a designer bound edition of their own book.
The six shortlisted books for 2006 were chosen from a longlist of 19, details of which can be found at www.themanbookerprize.com Maybe this should be your reading list for the next few months?
posted by Nicki at 1:05 PM
1 Comments:
I loved the Secret River, made better because I knew of where she was writing and I have always liked her writing...its a strange sort of story, but also "satisfying" in a way.
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