READERS BROUGHT TO BOOKER THE BOOKER PRIZE IS 40 YEARS OLD (SORT OF) AND THE PUBLIC IS BEING ASKED TO VOTE FOR THE GREATEST BOOK EVER TO WIN IT. ONE-TIME JUDGE ALAN TAYLOR ASSESSES THE SHORTLISTALAN TAYLOR
award n.奖;奖品 The Booker Prize is one of the Britain's top awards for fiction.布克 奖是英国小说界的最高奖项之一。 2. in return What did you give him in return?你给了他什么作为回报呢? I.C 【解题思路】 】 根据下 中 "such as cleaning and cooking" 知,此处指作者他们都有自己要做...
Amis was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize three times in his writing career for Ending Up (1974), Jake's Thing(1978), and finally winning the prize for The Old Devils in 1986. Kingsley Amis's 1986 Booker winner shows an unexpectedly sweet side of a writer often accused of misogyny ...
Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. In 2020 she publish....
make OLD FILTH a genuine masterpiece.作者简介 Jane Gardam has been awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature; has twice won a Whitbread Award and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She was awarded an OBE in January 2009.
作者: M Kington 摘要: I DIDN'T watch any of the Booker Prize ceremony last night. Call me presient if you like, but I already had a pretty fair idea who was the winner. It was, of course, Auberon Waugh first, with Vikram Seth a good second. 年份: 2008 收藏...
The Old Devils 是英国著名小说家 Kingsley Amis(1947-1995) 的1986年出版的作品,这本书在Goodreads上的读者评分非常低,很多的吐槽。我自己读来,觉得还不错,但是,是不是'值得荣获布克奖Booker Prize的不错’有待探讨。不得不说,得知它竟然打败了The Handmaid's Tale荣获当年的Booker Prize,确实让我有些震惊。
根据第一段“The 2021 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the 73-year-old novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, for his firm and passionate descriptions of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gap between cultures and continents.( 2021年诺贝尔文学奖被授予73岁的小说家...
根据文章第一段"The 2021 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the 73-year-old novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah,for his firm and passionate descriptions of the effects of colonialism (殖民主义) and the fate of the refugee (难民) in the gap between cultures and continents." (2021年诺贝尔...