Newsflash: 2019 Booker Prize winners announced
This year’s Booker Prize has been announced in London today and for the first time in almost 30 years, the prize has been jointly awarded to two authors – Margaret Atwood for The Testaments and Bernadine Evaristi for Girl, Woman, Other.
The Sellout: Man Booker Prize Winner 2016!
U.S. novelist Paul Beatty has won the Man Booker Prize for his novel ‘The Sellout‘! The first american to win the prize, Beatty’s 4th novel is a biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court. Chair of the judges Amanda Foreman said the novel […]
Donna Tartt’s Goldfinch to be a movie!
Hollywood director John Crowley has signed on to direct the film adaptation of Donna Tartt‘s Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Goldfinch. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy writer Peter Straughan wrote the script. Last year, Crowley directed Brooklyn, which was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Picture category, so we can’t wait to see what he does with this great piece of […]
