E:18/04 Win every Booker Prize novel

eli7

Anyone have any idea what the 'authorial reverse' is in q.30?

Does it have anything to do with in 1986: Kingsley Amis won the prize this year with The Old Devils... In his acceptance speech he repented about his previous criticism of the prize saying, ‘Now I feel it is a wonderful indication of literary merit’. He also said that he planned to buy new curtains with his prize money.

Or am I completely and utterly wrong?

hunch

think number 4 is R.C. Hutchinson from here?

"He died before completing the last chapter of his novel, Rising (1975). It was published in September of the same year and short-listed for the Booker Prize in November."

hunch

Couple more answers

No 7- Professor Malcolm Bradbury.

No 12- They are the same book. In Canada it was called "Who do you think you are?" and elsewhere it was called "The Beggar Maid".

lilias

Can somebody tell me who the two authors are on Q.40, please? Times photos will never display properly for me.

Analyst

I thought I would have a quick look at putting all your answers together to see where we are with this. Please feel free to shout if I have missed anyone out or if it does not make much sense.

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

3 Are william golding and Ben Okri

4. R.C. Hutchinson from here?

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

7- Professor Malcolm Bradbury.

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

12- They are the same book.

14. Beryl Bainbridge

16. Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh

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

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

22. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

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

27. J. M. Coetzee

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

33 the judge who threatened to throw himself out of a window if his choice didn't win was Philip Larkin
Philip Larkins choice was Paul Scott's "Staying On"

37. Kiran Desai

lilias

Think that 8 is Jan Morris who was born a male. She was short listed in 1985.

Datrys

Q6. Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
From here: I'm sure that the Twyborn Affair will have many fans (it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize but withdrawn by the author),
and here:
In 1979, his novel The Twyborn Affair was short-listed for the Booker Prize, but White requested that it be removed, to give younger writers a chance.

Q11.The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The British version of Yann Martel’s The Life of Pi that won the Booker Prize was not identical to the edition first published in Canada.
from here!

Datrys

lilias wrote: »

Can somebody tell me who the two authors are on Q.40, please? Times photos will never display properly for me.

I have same trouble have to use IE (:mad:) but sorry to disappoint there's 9 :eek: not 2!
1. The celebrated author Martin Amis pictued at the Cheltenham Literature Festival
2. Novelist Pat Barker 's deep, wise insight into the lives of ordinary people caught upin the First World War has won her the Booker Prize and sales of over one million for her Regeneration trilogy
3. Julian Barnes
4. William Boyd, author, at the Sunday Times Oxford literary festival 2005
5. Kazuo Ishiguro, author, at the Oxford literary festival 2005
6. Author Ian McEwan pictued at the Cheltenham Literature Festival
7. Salman Rushdie, the controversial author who became a house-hold name with his book The Satanic Verses, is to receive a Knighthood in The Queen's Birthday Honours He is pictured June 15th, 2007 at his publicists offices in Central London
8. Author Graham Swift at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2007
9. Rose Tremain, the author of "The Colour", which has been nominated for the Orange Fiction Prize

Hope this helps

lilias

I'd tentatively suggest James Kelman for 24 except that he was shortlisted 5 years and not 10 years earlier.

lilias

31. Is "Flaubert's Parrot" by Julian Barnes