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unusual facts about Booker Prize



1997 in Northern Ireland

Seamus Deane's first novel, Reading in the Dark (published in 1996), is shortlisted for the Booker Prize and wins the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and The Irish Literature Prize.

Gaynor Arnold

Her debut novel Girl in a Blue Dress was published by Birmingham's Tindal Street Press in 2008, being longlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Julie Mehta

Literary reviewer of contemporary literature and interviewer of Booker Prize winners and celebrated authors such as Arundhati Roy, Rohinton Mistry, Ben Okri, David Malouf, Norman Mailer, Mario Vargas Llosa, Christopher J. Koch and many others.

Kate Summerscale

She has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize in 2001.

Lancelot Curran

A fictionalized account of the trial and execution of McGladdery - Orchid Blue - was written by Eoin McNamee and published in 2010 (McNamee had previously written a Booker Prize-nominated novel, Blue Tango, about the murder of Patricia Curran).

Oleg Bogayev

In 1997, Bogayev won the Anti-Booker Prize for Русская народная почта (The Russian National Postal Service) and the award for Best Play at Russia's Golden Mask Festival for that same play.

PVR Pictures

In October 2012 the company acquired the Indian distribution rights for the film adaption of Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize winning novel Midnight's Children.

Saleem Sinai

Saleem Sinai is the protagonist of the Booker Prize winning novel Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.

Shinrone

Arlo Guthrie's visit to Shinrone is mentioned in Tim Winton's novel The Riders - shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995.

The Cornish Trilogy

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

Tim Parks

Parks is the author of several works of fiction (notably Europa, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997) and non-fiction.


see also

Adiga

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

Harold Rubens

Bernice, a Booker prize winner, would use his study with Madame Levinskaya as the subject of her book, Madame Sousatzka, which subsequently became a film with Shirley MacLaine in the title role.

Last Order

Last Orders, a 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel by Graham Swift

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.

Ludmila's Broken English

Ludmila's Broken English is the second novel by Booker Prize winner DBC Pierre.

Mark Kharitonov

Lines of Fate won the Russian Booker Prize by beating out the contributions of much better known authors like Vladimir Makanin and Lyudmila Petrushevskaya.

Preeja Sreedharan

The finalists with Preeja were, Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, Njhanpeedam winner and famous Malayalam poet ONV Kurup and famous politician, and ex- financial minister K. M. Mani.

Puducherry

Puducherry was the setting for the first third of the Booker prize-winning novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

Saint-Geoire-en-Valdaine

Similarly, John Berger, the English Booker prize winning writer, makes his home in nearby Quincy, Haut Savoie, which also figures in his works.

Saumya Balsari

Balsari's writing has been favourably compared by Alexander McCall Smith to that of Booker Prize Winners Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai.

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.

Vintage Classics

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.