Man Booker Prize

Luxuriating in Language

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

I had the good fortune to hear the outstanding Irish writers John Banville and Colum McCann a few days ago, when they did a reading together at New York’s 92nd Street Y. Banville won the Man Booker prize in 2005 for The Sea and McCann won last year’s National Book Award for Let The Great […]

Howard Jacobson Wins the Booker Prize

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

The judges for this book prize came to a unanimous decision in under two hours

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