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Martyn Goff obituary

Although bookselling framed his professional life, Martyn Goff, who has died aged 91, will be most remembered for his 34 years running what became under his stewardship Britain’s premier literary award...

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Booker prize chief Ion Trewin dies aged 71

Ion Trewin, the journalist turned publisher who went on to run the Man Booker prize, has died aged 71, the trustees of the Booker prize foundation have announced. Trewin, who was diagnosed with cancer...

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Ion Trewin obituary

If asked in a quiz for the link between Julie Andrews and Alan Clark, Julian Fellowes and Edna O’Brien, you could give only one correct answer: Ion Trewin, publisher. Trewin, who has died of cancer...

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Gaby Wood, head of books at Daily Telegraph, appointed as new literary...

Gaby Wood, currently head of books for the Daily Telegraph, has been appointed as the new literary director of the Booker prize foundation, following the death of Ion Trewin earlier this month. Trewin,...

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Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others wins Encore prize

Neel Mukherjee’s story of a young man who is drawn into into extreme political activism in 1960s Calcutta, The Lives of Others, has won him the £10,000 Encore award for the year’s best second novel....

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Books about women less likely to win prizes, study finds

Analysis of the last 15 years of winners of six major literary awards by the critically acclaimed author Nicola Griffith has found that a novel is more likely to land a prize if the focus of the...

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Beyond the Booker: in defence of the literary prize

Ali Smith’s Baileys prize win this week was a fabulous achievement, ensuring that her joyous, and formally innovative, novel will be the holiday reading of choice for readers way beyond the diehard...

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Impac prize goes to ‘consummate wordsmith’ Jim Crace for Harvest

The English novelist Jim Crace has won the €100,000 Impac Dublin literary award, leaving him free, he says, to retire and consider writing “as a hobby”. The 69-year-old writer took the prize, one of...

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Man Booker International and Independent foreign fiction prizes merge to...

The UK’s two leading prizes for international literature are to be merged to create a new annual super-prize that will reward both the writers and translators of foreign-language fiction. It was...

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Not the Booker prize 2015: make your submissions now

The Not the Booker prize is entering its seventh year. Lucky seven. Who’d have thought that when we started out in 2009 as plucky, cheeky, amateurish outsiders we’d outlast the Tribulation? Come on....

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Man Booker prize 2015 longlist: let the ‘posh bingo’ begin

With less than 24 hours to go before the longlist is announced, we’re starting to wonder who’ll make up this year’s Man Booker dozen – even though offering predictions is, in this game of “posh bingo”,...

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The Man Booker longlist: imaginative global reach

When the Man Booker prize rules changed last year to allow any novel written in English to compete, there were fears that British authors would lose out to an inevitable American domination. It didn’t...

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Man Booker prize 2015: US literary agent among 13 writers on longlist

An American literary agent known for his ruthless negotiating and memoirs recounting his struggles with crack-cocaine and alcohol has made it on to the 2015 Man Booker longlist with his debut novel....

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Man Booker prize 2015: the longlist – in pictures

Related: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James review – bloody conflicts in 70s Jamaica Marlon James (Jamaica): A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld) The first Jamaican writer to be...

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Man Booker 2015: what can the bookies tell us?

The Man Booker prize will have its first US winner in two months’ time, bookies’ odds for the longlist suggest: at the time of writing, five make Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life favourite at between...

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Anne Enright: ‘Ireland is my home but I feel I have been trying to leave all...

Your novel The Green Road has just been longlisted for this year’s Man Booker prize – which you won with The Gathering in 2007. How does it feel?Well, it’s more fun the second time around! Actually,...

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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara review – relentless suffering

Hanya Yanagihara’s second novel, A Little Life, was garlanded on its US release with the kind of fervid encomia that are the speciality of peppy American book reviewers. It has been longlisted for the...

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Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt review – a comic tale with a touching...

One of the great joys of comic fiction is that it can do anything it wants. It can explore the sexual possibilities of a giant salami, provoke empathy with a merciless killer, or throw the English...

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Bill Clegg: ‘I really understand the loneliness, excitement and vulnerability...

Bill Clegg is a leading New York literary agent and the author of the bestselling memoirs Portrait of an Addict As a Young Man and Ninety Days, which describe respectively his addiction to crack...

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Who will be on the Man Booker shortlist?

The minutes are ticking away to the revelation of this year’s Man Booker shortlist, which will be made late morning on Tuesday. The question of which six of the Booker dozen will make the cut has been...

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