Ironically, listing this year’s category winners ahead of Wednesday’s big night means closing our week with a winning Irish author named Paul, just as we opened the week with Ireland’sPaul Lynch and his Booker Prize for Fiction win forProphet Song. In fact,Prophet Song—fromJuliet Mabey‘...
There are 21 men and 13 women on the list, including former Booker Prize winners John Banville, Anne Enright and Roddy Doyle and also William Trevor, who has made the shortlist for the Booker five times but has never won. Other Irish literary veterans (if that’s not too harsh) are Seb...
is nearly here with the runner-up winners also being revealed...and there's still time to grab your tickets. entertainment conan o’brien’s parents - “very proud of their irish heritage” - die three days apart rtÉ's "the late late show" gets festive tonight for its christmas ...
This book argues that the outskirts of cities have become spaces for a new literature beyond boundaries of traditional notions of nation, class, and gender. Includes discussions of Booker Prize winners Roddy Doyle and James Kelman. 我来说两句 短评 ··· 热门 / 最新 / 好友 还没人写过短评...
This comprehensive collection of Irish writing includes five Nobel Prize-winners, seven Pulitzer Prize-winners and two Booker Prize-winners. Writers range from literary giants like William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, Samuel Becket and Seamus Heaney to contemporary songwriters like Van Morrison and Bono...
heavily favouring writers from continental Europe, a point the permanent secretary of the academy, Peter Englund, acknowledged in 2009, saying the prize committee had to work on “not becoming too Eurocentric”. That work, however, goes on, as six of the last 10 winners have bee...
The Other Names is published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, a small UK publisher that has distinguished itself by giving us English translations of two recent Nobel Prize winners: Svetlana Alexievich and Olga Tokarczuk. Fosse has long been tipped as a future Nobel winner and he certainly has that...