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A 'lacklustre' year for the Booker shortlist
Well, The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga, Atlantic) may have won, but apparently Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies was the winner in terms of sales in the prize's home country in the lead up to the prize...
'The White Tiger' wins 2008 Man Booker Prize
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic) has been named the winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Adiga, who was born in Chennai, India, was raised partly in Sydney, completed his HSC in...
White, Hazzard in running for 'Lost' Man Booker Prize
Novels by Australian authors Patrick White and Shirley Hazzard are among those in the running for a new Man Booker Prize. The Lost Man Booker Prize, announced on 1 February, is a one-off prize to...
'Wolf Hall' wins 2009 Man Booker Prize
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate) has won the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Mantel's novel was the favourite to win the prize and is the first bookies' favourite to win since The L...
Coetzee shortlisted for third Booker
Summertime by Australian author J M Coetzee (Knopf) has been shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The full shortlist is: The Children's Book (A S Byatt, Chatto & Windu...
Coetzee on Man Booker longlist
Australia-based author J M Coetzee is on the 2009 Man Booker longlist, for Summertime (Knopf), which is released in Australia in September. Coetzee is one of only two novelists to have ...
De Kretser, Toltz on Booker longlist
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser (A&U) and A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz (Hamish Hamilton) are among the titles longlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize. The longlist of ...
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