caribousmom (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
... to satisfy the requirements of the challenge: Mark Haddon Peter Carey Ann Patchett Kate Grenville Nadine Gordimer V.S. Naipaul Kate Atkinson Doris Lessing Lionel Shriver Laura Lippman Rose Tremain Michael Faber Eudora Welty Ursula Hegi Daphne Du Maurier Alice Munro Edward P. Jones
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
... I had with it is not unique: neither with this book for me, nor, I suspect, for other readers. Nadine Gordimer has so many literary laurels that the cover - front or back - of The Conservationist doesn’t even bother to mention that it won the Booker Prize in 1974 (jointly, with Stanley Middleton’s Holiday ). The biggie of course is the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she took in...
Silent Eloquence (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
... can be frustrating. I can only guess it is about Apartheid. It is from the book My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer . Here is a synopsis of the book from Amazon: Highly praised as a literate goad to South Africa's conscience under apartheid, Gordimer here delivers her most perceptive and powerful novel in years. The story of a man's evolution as a political activist and the toll...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Almost 30 years ago, his novel Midnight's Children saw off the competition to win the Booker Prize. Today, Sir Salman Rushdie did it again, beating all previous Booker winners including the Nobel laureates Doris Lessing, J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer to carry away a one-off literary award celebrating the Booker's 40th anniversary.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie, has been named the best Booker Prize winner of all time.The Best of the Booker title was bestowed by public vote, conducted to mark the 40th anniversary of the literary award. Rushdie was always the favourite, chosen from a shortlist of six which included works by JM Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Pat Barker, Peter Carey and JG Farrell. Salman Rushdie,...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... of three judges and put to a public e-mail vote. It included two South African Nobel laureates: Nadine Gordimer and JM Coetzee, the first writer to win the prize twice.Also included was the second double-Booker winner Peter Carey, Pat Barker and JG Farrell, who won in 1973 with The Siege of Krishnapur , the year before Gordimer shared the prize with Stanley Middleton.More than...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... a winner in 1995; and The Conservationist, a Booker winner in 1974 for South African writer Nadine Gordimer, were also shortlisted. After Glendinning had announced the winner, it was Milan who brought the house down with his confident little speech: “I am very grateful to everyone who voted for him and I am extremely honoured to be collecting the prize for my father and I am really...
Time (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... phone text message.The other finalists were Australian novelist Peter Carey's "Oscar and Lucinda," Nadine Gordimer's "The Conservationist" and — the outsider — "The Siege of Krishnapur" by the late J.G. Farrell.Born in Mumbai in 1947 and educated in England, Rushdie shot to literary fame with "Midnight's Children," a magic-realist saga that weaves the story of a narrator, born at...
The Herald (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... a winner in 1995; and The Conservationist, a Booker winner in 1974 for South African writer Nadine Gordimer, were also shortlisted.Marvellous news! I'm absolutely delighted and would like to thank all those readers around the world who voted for Midnight's ChildrenSir Salman RushdieThe one-off award was voted for by readers around the world and celebrates the 40th anniversary later...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... phone text message.The other finalists were Australian novelist Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda, Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist and – the outsider – The Siege of Krishnapur by the late J.G. Farrell.Born in Mumbai in 1947 and educated in England, Rushdie shot to literary fame with Midnight's Children, a magic-realist saga that weaves the story of a narrator, born at the moment...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... phone text message.The other finalists were Australian novelist Peter Carey's "Oscar and Lucinda," Nadine Gordimer's "The Conservationist" and - the outsider - "The Siege of Krishnapur" by the late J.G. Farrell.Born in Mumbai in 1947 and educated in England, Rushdie shot to literary fame with "Midnight's Children," a magic-realist saga that weaves the story of a narrator, born at...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... phone text message.The other finalists were Australian novelist Peter Carey's "Oscar and Lucinda," Nadine Gordimer's "The Conservationist" and - the outsider - "The Siege of Krishnapur" by the late J.G. Farrell.Born in Mumbai in 1947 and educated in England, Rushdie shot to literary fame with "Midnight's Children," a magic-realist saga that weaves the story of a narrator, born at...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... phone text message.The other finalists were Australian novelist Peter Carey's "Oscar and Lucinda," Nadine Gordimer's "The Conservationist" and - the outsider - "The Siege of Krishnapur" by the late J.G. Farrell.Born in Mumbai in 1947 and educated in England, Rushdie shot to literary fame with "Midnight's Children," a magic-realist saga that weaves the story of a narrator, born at...
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda, J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace , J.G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur , and Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist . Guardian blogger Sam Jordison argues today that the public made the right choice. And when the Canadian-free shortlist was unveiled a couple of months ago, Toronto writer (and Q&Q contributor) Flannery Dean offered some local perspective on the...
France24 (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... by the late British writer JG Farrell (1973); "The Conservationist" by South African novelist Nadine Gordimer (1974); Australian author Peter Carey's "Oscar and Lucinda" (1988) and "The Ghost Road" by British writer Pat Barker, the 1995 winner.Novelist and critic Victoria Glendinning, who chaired the judges, said: "The readers have spoken -- in their thousands. And we do believe that...
