E:18/04 Win every Booker Prize novel

inishowen

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38 Kingsley Amis?

I think Kingsley Amis is right, he won the Booker Prize in 1986, his son Martin was shortlisted in 1991

choolstuff

13 Bernice Rubens The Elected Member was called Chosen People and A
Five Year Sentence was called Favours.

choolstuff

Thanks Lilias, I think you might be right about the cats.

Datrys

I'd go with lilias I've spent hours convinced it was Schindlers list :mad::mad::mad: trying to find the other change:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Datrys

To review:
1.DBC Pierre with Vernon God Little
2.Midnight’s Children 1981 Salman Rushdie<o></o>
3.Are Ben Okri was the youngest ever winner and Golding 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
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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. Not entirely sure but I think it's AS Byatt's possession - was definitely hacked about a bit by the US publisher, I assume most of the poetry got hacked out.
16.Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh
17. bone people by Keri Hulme - it was published in New Zealand in 1984 and won in 1985
18.Kiran Desai dedicated "The Inheritance of Loss" to her mother Anita - as for the other
19. On Chesil Beach, The Sea The Sea - Murdoch; The Sea - Banville; Holiday - Stanley Middleton; Offshore - Fitzgerald; Rites of Passage - Golding; Sacred Hunger - Unsworth; Life of Pi - Martell
20. Original title - Two Lives, Shortlisted title - Reading Turgenev, Author - William Trevor
21.Rohinton Mistry Family Matters (2002) A Fine Balance (1996) Such a Long Journey (1991)
22.Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
23.1971. "In a free state" by V.S. Naipul
24. Thomas Keneally - shortlisted 1972, won 1982
Penelope Lively - shortlisted 1977, won 1987
Alan Hollinghurst - shortlisted 1994, won 2004

Not sure which one upset the judges with their bad language though. Could be Hollinghurst, hist shortlisted novel, The Folding Star, is an erotic story of homosexual love.
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26. Penelope Lively Road to Lichfield, Keri Hume, Bone People, DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little; Arunhadti Roy, The God of Small Things, 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. 1989 (the year 29 happened)
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. Poet Anthony Thwaite was Chairman of the judges when Kingsley Amis won the prize. Earlier Amis had dedicated a book to Philip Larkin
35. The book is Darkmans by Nicola Barker was unique as 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.
36. Could be that it won the Whitbread First Novel Award, but it was his second novel? OR It's possible that the answer to 36 is that the book is handprinted. Apparantly Salamander Press was based in someone's garage.
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38. Kingsley Amis
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40. all nine of these authors featured in Granta's list of Best of Young British Novelists 1983.- a list they publish every 10 years of British authors under 40 who they talent spot

lyndylu

The answer to question 20 could be :

Original title - Two Lives
Shortlisted title - Reading Turgenev
Author - William Trevor

The original book, Two Lives, was originally 2 short novels, Reading Turgenev and My House In Umbria.

Link - http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/twolives.html

lyndylu

Question 24

I've found 3 authors who were shortlisted and subsequently won the Booker prize 10 years later :-

Thomas Keneally - shortlisted 1972, won 1982
Penelope Lively - shortlisted 1977, won 1987
Alan Hollinghurst - shortlisted 1994, won 2004

Not sure which one upset the judges with their bad language though. Could be Hollinghurst, hist shortlisted novel, The Folding Star, is an erotic story of homosexual love.

Link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Folding_Star

lilias

19. This article http://www.themanbookerprize.com/perspective/articles/106

lists the following as sea books
On Chesil Beach
The Sea The Sea - Murdoch
The Sea - Banville
Holiday - Stanley Middleton
Offshore - Fitzgerald
Rites of Passage - Golding
Sacred Hunger - Unsworth
Life of Pi - Martell

halkerstone

I think the answer to number 40 is that all nine of these authors featured in Granta's list of Best of Young British Novelists 1983.- a list they publish every 10 years of British authors under 40 who they talent spot.
This checks out on Amazon.

choolstuff

15 - Not entirely sure but I think it's AS Byatt's possession - was definitely hacked about a bit by the US publisher, I assume most of the poetry got hacked out.