2023 Booker Prize
The Booker Prize is an annual literary award given for the best English-language novel of the year published in either the United Kingdom or Ireland. The 2023 winner was Paul Lynch's ''Prophet Song''. The 2023 longlist was announced on 1 August. The shortlist, announced on 21 September, consisted of six books from six different authors, one British, one Canadian, two Irish, and two American. For all six authors, this marked the first time that they had appeared in a Booker Prize shortlist. For two writers, Escoffery and Maroo, the shortlist honour was given for their debut novels. With the 2023 longlisting for her work ''All the Little Bird-Hearts'', Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow became the first person with autism to be nominated for a Booker prize. Regarding the 2023 shortlisted works, novelist and chair of the Booker Prize Judging Panel, Esi Edugyan stated "This year's novels offer a full range of lived experience, the books refuse easy categorization. No one voice, no one vision dom ...
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Paul Lynch (14202579827) (cropped)
Paul Lynch may refer to: * Paul Lynch (politician), Australian politician * Paul Lynch (director) (born 1946), English television director * Paul Lynch (canoeist) (born 1967), Australian sprint canoeist * Paul Lynch (footballer) (born 1973), Australian Football League player * Paul Lynch (hurler) (1938–2014), Irish hurler * Paul Lynch (writer) (born 1977), Irish writer; awarded the 2023 Booker Prize * Paul Lynch (American football) (1901–1961), American football player * Paul Henry Allen Lynch Paul Henry Allen Lynch was a multiple Guinness World Record holder through the 1980s, and 1990s. Paul was best known for his previous world records in push-ups, and most notably consecutive one-finger push-ups. Records ;One-Arm Push-Ups Paul's fi ...

The Bee Sting
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pro ...
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Granta Books
''Granta'' is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, '' The Observer'' stated: "In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, ''Granta'' has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world." Granta has published twenty-seven laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Literature published by Granta regularly win prizes such as the Forward Prize, T. S. Eliot Prize, Pushcart Prize and more. History ''Granta'' was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as ''The Granta'', edited by R. C. Lehmann (who later became a major contributor to '' Punch''). It was started as a periodical featuring student politics, badinage and literary efforts. The title was taken from the medieval n ...
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Study For Obedience
''Study for Obedience'' is a 2023 novel by Canadian author Sarah Bernstein, published by Knopf Canada, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House. The novel tells of an unnamed narrator who moves to a secluded area of an unnamed northern country to care for her older brother. The narrator soon realizes that the townspeople revile her, an allegory for antisemitism. The novel was shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize,Ella Creamer"Just one British writer makes the Booker prize shortlist" ''The Guardian'', September 21, 2023. and was the winner of the 2023 Giller Prize.Brad Wheeler"Sarah Bernstein wins 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize for fiction" '' The Globe and Mail'', November 13, 2023. Narrative The unnamed narrator moves to a remote part of an unnamed northern country to become her brother's caretaker after his divorce. A series of unexplained and bizarre events occur in the town shortly after her arrival, including a dog's "phantom pregnancy", a sow crushing her own piglets, a potato ...
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Sarah Bernstein (author)
Sarah Bernstein (born April 23, 1987) is a Canadian writer and scholar. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, and now lives in Scotland where she teaches literature and creative writing. She has taught at the universities of Sheffield, Edinburgh and Strathclyde. Her collection of prose poems ''Now Comes the Lightning'' appeared in 2015 and was shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Writing. Her debut novel ''The Coming Bad Days'' was published in 2021. Her next novel, ''Study for Obedience'', was shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize and won the 2023 Giller Prize.Brad Wheeler"Sarah Bernstein wins 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize for fiction" '' The Globe and Mail'', November 13, 2023. In 2023, Bernstein was named by ''Granta'' magazine as one of the best young writers in Britain. Works Novels * ''The Coming Bad Days'' (2021) * ''Study for Obedience ''Study for Obedience'' is a 2023 novel by Canadian author Sarah Bernstein, published by Knopf Canada, a subsidiary o ...
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4th Estate
Fourth or the fourth may refer to: * the ordinal form of the number 4 * ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971 * Fourth (angle), an ancient astronomical subdivision * Fourth (music), a musical interval * ''The Fourth'' (1972 film), a Soviet drama See also * * * 1/4 (other) * 4 (other) * The fourth part of the world (other) * Forth (other) * Quarter (other) * Independence Day (United States) Independence Day (colloquially the Fourth of July) is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the Declaration of Independence, which was ratified by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States ...

If I Survive You
''If I Survive You'' is the debut book by Jonathan Escoffery, published on September 6, 2022 by MCD Books. It is a collection of eight interlinked short stories that follow the struggles of an immigrant family from Jamaica who build a new home in Miami. The story's main character is Trelawny, an American-born son of immigrants who grapples with identity, familial and cultural issues through various phases of adolescence and adulthood. The book was released to wide acclaim, with reviewers praising Escoffery's narrative style, technical skill, and use of humor. It was shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, and was a finalist or longlisted for several other awards. Plot The story follows a Jamaican immigrant family that moves to Miami in the 1970s. It is told through eight connected short stories. The main character is Trelawny, the young son of Topper and Sanya; they moved to Miami in the 1970s in search of stability after political violence erupted in their hometown of King ...
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Jonathan Escoffery
Jonathan Escoffery is an American writer. His debut novel, ''If I Survive You'', was longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction and shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, among other honors. The novel was well received by critics with reviews applauding Escoffery's humor, narrative style, and exploration of identity in the immigrant experience. Biography Escoffery was born in Houston, Texas, to Jamaican parents and grew up in Miami, Florida. Escoffery graduated from Florida International University and received a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota. As of 2022, he was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Escoffery has cited Sandra Cisneros, Langston Hughes, and Nella Larsen as literary influences. He worked as the program coordinator for the writing center Grubstreet in Boston, where he started the Boston Writers of Color group. His short story "Under the Ackee Tree", which w ...
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Hutchinson Heinemann
Hutchinson Heinemann is a British publishing firm founded in 1887. It is currently an imprint which is ultimately owned by Bertelsmann, the German publishing conglomerate. History Hutchinson Heinemann began as Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., an English book publisher, founded in London in 1887 by Sir George Hutchinson and later run by his son, Walter Hutchinson (1887–1950). Hutchinson's published books and magazines such as ''The Lady's Realm'', ''Adventure-story Magazine'', ''Hutchinson's Magazine'' and ''Woman''.Ashley, M. (2006). ''The Age of Storytellers. British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880–1950''. London: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press. In the 1920s, Walter Hutchinson published many of the "spook stories" of E. F. Benson in ''Hutchinson's Magazine'' and then in collections in a number of books. The company also first published Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger novels, five novels by mystery writer Harry Stephen Keeler, and short stories by Eden ...
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This Other Eden (Harding Novel)
''This Other Eden'' is a 2023 novel by American writer Paul Harding. Background The novel presents a fictionalized version of Maine's Malaga Island, dubbed "Apple Island" in the book. It's based on the historical record of when "Maine forcibly removed all residents of a mixed-race fishing community on a small island off the coast of Phippsburg in 1912." Harding began the earliest version of the novel by writing a scene featuring Mrs. Hale, a character from his novel ''Enon''. In the scene, Mrs. Hale and members of her family sit in a meadow, and observe an unknown person, inspired by a Charles Ethan Porter painting. Reception According to literary review aggregator Book Marks, the novel received mostly "Rave" reviews. Danez Smith, in a review published by ''The New York Times'', praised Harding's prose. In a review published by the ''Financial Times'', Catherine Taylor also praised Harding's writing. Writing for ''The Los Angeles Times'', Mark Athitakis compared the book unfav ...
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Paul Harding (author)
Paul Harding (born 1967) is an American musician and author, best known for his debut novel ''Tinkers'' (2009), which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction"From Drum Set to Pulitzer"
, SeaCoast Online, October 2010 and the 2010 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize among other honors. Harding was the drummer in the band throughout its existence from 1990 to 1996.

Life and career

Paul Harding grew up on the north shore of Boston in the town of

Picador
A ''picador'' (; pl. ''picadores'') is one of the pair of horse-mounted bullfighters in a Spanish-style bullfight that jab the bull with a lance. They perform in the ''tercio de varas'', which is the first of the three stages in a stylized bullfight. Function The ''picador'' has three main functions in a traditional bullfight: * To pierce the muscle on the back of the bull’s neck in order to straighten the bull's charge. * To fatigue the bull’s neck muscles and general stamina as it tries to lift the horse with its head. * To lower the bull’s head in preparation for the next stage. If the public feels that a picador is better than the bull the public will whistle, boo or jeer as they see fit. This is because they do not want the bull to lose all its strength and energy as this can lead to a dull bullfight. The picador is obliged to give the bull two lances in a first category bullring (Barcelona, Madrid, Sevilla, Zaragoza etc.), but the matador may request that the se ...
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