Tag: Eleanor Catton
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Chimamanda Adichie makes Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014 longlist
You may or may not know the Baileys Women Prize for women but you probably know about it in its old life. It all started in January 1992, a diverse group of creative types both male and female gathered together in a flat in London, UK (England, not Siaya). The Booker Prize shortlist of 1991,…
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No Man Booker for Noviolet: Man Booker 2013 announced
The Man Booker Prize committee last night announced the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2013: Eleanor Catton for her 832 page book The Luminaries. The New Zealand native is also the youngest winner of the award at 28. The book she wrote according to the website of the prize is “set in 1866 during…