“The Man Booker Prize: Prize Archive 2006”. The Man Booker Prize.
Booker Prize
Connections
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Occupation | Margaret Forster | After that she became a full-time writer. Apart from her steady output as a novelist, memoir-writer, and historian, she worked as a book-reviewer for the Evening Standard from 1977 to 1980. Later she served as... |
Occupation | Antonia Fraser | While bringing up her children, AF
persevered with the writing career she had already launched. As the wife of a wealthy man, she did voluntary work of various kinds, chairing the Prison Committee
and, for... |
Occupation | Marina Warner | In 1994 MW
took a position teaching creative writing in the department of literature, film and theatre studies at the University of Essex
. This was a new experience for her, though she had already... |
Occupation | Maggie Gee | Having been a temporary filing clerk before university, MG
worked from 1972 to 1974 for Elsevier International Press
at their offices in Oxford, then spent six months on the dole, writing. While working at... |
Textual Production | Margaret Forster | MF
's short novel Marital Rites resulted from her decision to try the genre of brittle farce, which she had observed to be popular among candidates for the Booker Prize
, for which she... |
Timeline
10 October 2006: Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize for...
Writing climate item
10 October 2006
Kiran Desai
won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction
for her novel The Inheritance of Loss.
McConville, Brigid. “Born to write”. Mslexia, No. 32, Jan. 2007, pp. 9-12.
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“Tears, tiffs and triumphs”. Guardian Unlimited, 6 Sept. 2008.
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