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Ian McEwan

Statement re International Author of The Year Award

10th October 2008 GB00B1G17S00/GBP/PLUS-exn Quercus Publishing Plc ("Quercus" or "the Company") Author of the Girl with Dragon Tattoo wins the International Author of The Year Award And The Boeke Prize 2008 Quercus Publishing...

Dummy film-maker is promising talent

Nick Roddick, Evening Standard 10.10.08 Getting its London premiere tonight at Raindance, London’s “alternative” film festival, Matthew Thompson’s debut feature has a lot more going for it than its unfortunate title. The story...

The Booker's Big Bang

The Booker Prize, which will be awarded on 14 October, is 40 years old, but it wasn't always the 600lb gorilla of literary prizes. John Sutherland recalls how a demure award came to embrace the values of the Thatcherite...

Magris, Mahasweta, Murakami... the Nobel guessing game is on

When a small group of scholars in Sweden announce the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday, what are the chances of the winner being Mahasweta Devi or Sir Salman Rushdie? Any takers for Haruki Murakami or Bob Dylan?

LibraryThing Titles & Statistics

This week’s question: -LibraryThing’s Recently Added feature: do you look at it? Do you use it for ideas? Is there something listed there now that looks interesting to you? What have you added to your LT library recently? My...

The Big Read -I'm doing OK, so far

Stolen from Laney Please see http://www.neabigread.org/ 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE, and strikeout the books you read but didn't like....

John Sutherland: The nobel prize judge Horace Engdahl is wrong - the greatest American writers...

Horace Engdahl has stuck his little stick of dynamite into the fundament of the literary world with his declaration that American literature is "too isolated and insular", too much up its own fundament, that is, to win the...

RICHARD KAY: Last act in the tragedy of a pop tycoon

Bryan Morrison (pictured with wife Greta), died on Saturday after two years in a coma As he hovered between life and death, polo-playing music impresario Bryan Morrison was unaware of the bitter rift that threatened to...

Letters

Alton was manipulated There is a nice irony in Roger Alton's huffing and puffing about my book, Flat Earth News (Interview, September 22). One of PR's regular techniques is to try to bury true stories with a "non-denial...

Lessons from the battlefield

Philip Roth's latest novel traces the short, doomed life of a college student sent to war. "Indignation," Roth's latest bravura performance in the form, is a haunting, bleakly comic time capsule of a book. Set in 1951...

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