E:18/04 Win every Booker Prize novel

silverdarling · 7 April 2008 at 8:55AM

I can't find this Quiz , sorry if it 's been posted before.
From the Times, answer 40 questions :eek:

Good luck

Clicky

purpleluvbug · 7 April 2008 at 9:53AM

:eek: * walks away slowly, and pretends she hasn't even seen this:whistle:.* :think:Will come back when the clever ppl have posted the answers.:D

Caskers · 7 April 2008 at 12:28PM

A few answers... (mostly from Wikipedia)

14. Beryl Bainbridge

19. "The Sea, the sea" by Iris Murdoch and "The Sea" by John Banville (Possibly also "Offshore" by Penelope Fitzgerald?)

23. 1971. "In a free state" by V.S. Naipul

37. Kiran Desai

mlle_chosette · 7 April 2008 at 2:07PM

Some more answers:

22. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

27. J. M. Coetzee

29. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro beat The Book of Evidence by John Banville

emmedi · 7 April 2008 at 8:27PM

16. Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh
(from here)

lyndylu · 13 April 2008 at 8:11PM

1. DBC Pierre with Vernon God Little
Lnk - http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/authors/40

2. Midnight’s Children 1981 Salman Rushdie<o></o>>
Link - http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/authors/22<o></o>

5. An Instant in the Wind 1976 Andre Brink
Link - http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authD4F18F62118171C279IsK19504F1

eli7 · 13 April 2008 at 9:16PM

I've got half the answer to 33: the judge who threatened to throw himself out of a window if his choice didn't win was Philip Larkin (from here) but I haven't yet found out what his choice was.

choolstuff · 13 April 2008 at 9:17PM

3 Are william golding and Ben Okri - Ben Okri was the youngest ever winner for sure, I'm trying to confirm if Golding was the oldest - seems likely:D

choolstuff · 13 April 2008 at 9:55PM

33 Philip Larkins choice was Paul Scott's "Staying On" http://www.themanbookerprize.com/perspective/articles/1017

choolstuff · 13 April 2008 at 10:09PM

9 could be 1972 when John Berger announced he was giving half his prize money to the Black Panther Movement?

choolstuff · 13 April 2008 at 10:21PM

18 - Kiran Desai dedicated "The Inheritance of Loss" to her mother Anita - as for the other

E:18/04 Win every Booker Prize novel

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