E:18/04 Win every Booker Prize novel

lilias

Does anyone else think that 21 might be Rohinton Mistry?

hunch

OK- so far we have...

1.DBC Pierre with Vernon God Little
2.Midnight’s Children 1981 Salman Rushdie<o></o>
3. Ben Okri was the youngest ever winner and WilliamGolding was the oldest
4.R.C. Hutchinson - Rising
5.An Instant in the Wind 1976 Andre Brink
6.Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
7.Professor Malcolm Bradbury
8.Jan Morris
9.J G Farrell
10.
11.The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
12.They are the same book by Alice Munro
13.Bernice Rubens The Elected Member was called Chosen People and A
Five Year Sentence was called Favours
14.Beryl Bainbridge
15.
16.Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh
17.
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?)
20.
21.Rohinton Mistry?
22.Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
23.1971. "In a free state" by V.S. Naipul
24.
25.
26.But I don't think this is all of them - Penelope Lively Road to Lichfield, Keri Hume, Bone People, DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little; Arunhadti Roy, The God of Small Things, Yann Martel, the Life of Pi, Monica Ali, Brick Lane, Catherine O'Flynn, What was lost
27.J. M. Coetzee
28.The Seige of Krishnapur by JG Farrell
29.The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro beat The Book of Evidence by John Banville
30.
31."Flaubert's Parrot" by Julian Barnes
32. Alan Hollinghurst - Confidential Chats with Boys
Margaret Atwood - Double Persephone
Kingsley Amis - Bright November
Keri Hulme - The Silences Between
William Golding - Poems
Michael Ondaatje,The Dainty Monsters
John Fuller, Fairground music
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"
34.Anthony Thwaite
35.The book is Darkmans by Nicola Barker.

I've found this mention of the actual book
"Firstly, on a purely physical level, this is a difficult book to read. It's actually hard to hold this great 838-page slab up to your face. This discomfort is only increased by its strange sans serif typeface. The rounded, undefined letters demand an unusual level of focus and made my head swim. As I soon realised, however, a brain at sea is entirely appropriate to Darkmans. The physical uneasiness actually enhanced the experience of reading a book that is unsettling and disorientating - and all the better for it. "

Not sure if long and weirdly printed is what they want!
36.Could be that it won the Whitbread First Novel Award, but it was his second novel?
37.Kiran Desai
38.Kingsley Amis?
39.
40.

mlle_chosette

The answer to question 4 should also include the title of the book ("Rising").

kohsamui14

whilst you are editing... Q3 needs a little more detail
Ben Okri was the youngest ever winner and Golding was the oldest, hence the ageist reference

mlle_chosette

I think 40 could be that they have all either won or been nominated for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (I am sure about this for all of them except for Julian Barnes).

Datrys

lilias wrote: »

Does anyone else think that 21 might be Rohinton Mistry?

I agree he has had three in a row but he had a first book which wasn't nominated it was however a collection of short stories so would that count?
Bibliography

• Tales from Firozsha Baag (1987)
• Such a Long Journey (1991) - Short listed
• A Fine Balance (1995) - Short listed
• Family Matters (2002) - Short listed

Timothy Mo had his 2nd ,3rd & 4th novels short-listed, so you take a chance on this one!

lilias

34. Poet Anthony Thwaite was Chairman of the judges when Kingsley Amis won the prize. Earlier Amis had dedicated a book to Philip Larkin

mlle_chosette

25. They were all on the 1976 shortlist.

EDIT: Sorry, ignore this answer! (Thanks to Datrys for pointing out my mistake.)

lilias

Datrys wrote: »

I agree he has had three in a row but he had a first book which wasn't nominated it was however a collection of short stories so would that count?
Bibliography

• Tales from Firozsha Baag (1987)
• Such a Long Journey (1991) - Short listed
• A Fine Balance (1995) - Short listed
• Family Matters (2002) - Short listed

It does say "Whose first three novels were all shortlisted for the prize" not whose three first books so I don't think the short stories do count.

Datrys

lilias wrote: »

Does anyone else think that 21 might be Rohinton Mistry?

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Thanks I am convinced now you are right:D