Donna Seaman
, reviewer for Booklist, invoked the comparison of AD
to Austen
and acknowledged some substance to the parallel: indeed, she is a deceptively gracious storyteller, writing like an embroiderer concealing a sword...
Literary responses
Gillian Slovo
The Times Literary Supplement reviewer wrote that this novel had the pace of a thriller, not introspective yet raising compelling psychological and philosophical issues, and that its geography and history gave it the allegorical grandeur...
Occupation
Fay Weldon
In March 1977 FW
was one of a group of writers who travelled in a cultural delegation to Israel. She chaired the Booker Prize panel of judges in 1983, and on her watch the...
Timeline
By late June 1999: J. M. Coetzee became the first author to...
Writing climate item
By late June 1999
J. M. Coetzee
became the first author to win the Booker Prize a second time, with Disgrace; his Life & Times of Martin K. had won in 1983.
“Who’s who in the Man Booker Prize”. Man Group plc.
