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2024 Booker Prize
The 2024 Booker Prize is a literary award worth £50,000 given for the best English-language novel published between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024 in either the United Kingdom or Ireland. The winner, Samantha Harvey (author), Samantha Harvey for her sci-fi novel ''Orbital (novel), Orbital'', was announced on 12 November 2024 at Old Billingsgate in London. Of the thirteen authors on the 2024 longlist, announced on 30 July 2024, three (Colin Barrett (author), Colin Barrett, Rita Bullwinkel, Yael van der Wouden) were debut novelists and six (Percival Everett, Samantha Harvey (author), Samantha Harvey, Rachel Kushner, Hisham Matar, Claire Messud, Richard Powers) had been nominated previously. The longlist also featured the first Dutch (van der Wouden) and Native American (Orange) authors ever to be longlisted. Regarding the thirteen novels in the longlist, chair of the judging panel Edmund de Waal stated that the works varied widely in their style and mood, however he stated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booker Prize
The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. The winner of the Booker Prize receives , as well as international publicity that usually leads to a significant sales boost. When the prize was created, only novels written by Commonwealth, Irish and South African (and later Zimbabwean) citizens were eligible to receive the prize; in 2014, eligibility was widened to any English-language novel—a change that proved controversial. A five-person panel consisting of authors, publishers and journalists, as well as politicians, actors, artists and musicians, is appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation each year to choose the winning book. Gaby Wood has been the chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation since 2015. A high-profile liter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viking Press
Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheimer and then acquired by the Penguin Group in 1975. Imprints * Viking Kestrel * Viking Adult, who got in legal trouble in 1946 due to John Steinbeck's bold eulogy, and fell out of public favor in 1947 * Viking children's Books * Viking Portable Library * Pamela Dorman Books Viking Children's In 1933, Viking Press founded a department called Junior Books to publish children's books. The first book published was '' The Story About Ping'' in 1933 under editor May Massee. Junior Books was later renamed Viking Children's Books. Viking Kestrel was one of its imprints. Its books have won the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and include such books as '' The Twenty-One Balloons'', written and illustrated by William Pene du Bois (1947, Newbery medal winner for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Friends (novel)
''My Friends'' is a 2024 novel by Hisham Matar published by Penguin Random House. The novel tells the story of three Libyan friends living in London as exiles from their country. The story follows their intertwined lives from the 1980s to the 2011 Arab Spring. Fearing retribution from the Gaddafi regime, they are fearful of returning to their own country or contacting their families. Similar to Matar' previous works, the novel focuses on themes of government oppression and violence, as well as the lives of exiles abroad. The novel was nominated for several awards; it was longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, nominated for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction, and won the Orwell Prize for political fiction and the 2025 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award for fiction. Narrative The narrator, Khaled, grows up in Libya and leaves as a young adult in 1983 to study at the University of Edinburgh. While at University, he befriends fellow student Mustafa, who is also from Lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creation Lake
''Creation Lake'' is a 2024 novel by Rachel Kushner. It was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. Synopsis "Sadie Smith," a pseudonymous freelance spy, works to undermine environmental activists. After being hired to disrupt a farming cooperative in France, she begins to suspect that her mission risks undermining her own humanity. Development history ''Creation Lake'' is Kushner's fourth novel. She has cited Jean-Patrick Manchette and John le Carré as inspirations for the book, along with time spent with performance artists in the 1980s. The main character Sadie is based on the real-life events surrounding Eric McDavid's arrest and the UK undercover police officer Mark Kennedy. Publication history The novel was published in the United States by Scribner on September 3, 2024. It was published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape. Reception It appeared on 16 lists of the best books of the year. ''Kirkus Reviews'' positively described the book as being a "deft, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mantle Books
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the United Kingdom and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the United States) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the "Big Five" English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster). Founded in London in 1843 by Scottish brothers Daniel and Alexander MacMillan, the firm soon established itself as a leading publisher in Britain. It published two of the best-known works of Victorian-era children's literature, Lewis Carroll's ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and Rudyard Kipling's '' The Jungle Book'' (1894). Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Harold Macmillan, grandson of co-founder Daniel, was chairman of the company from 1964 until his death in December 1986. Since 1999, Macmillan has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group with offices in 41 co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James (novel)
''James'' is a novel by author Percival Everett published by Doubleday in 2024. The novel is a re-imagining of ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' by Mark Twain but told from the perspective of Huckleberry's friend on his travels, Jim, who is an escaped slave. The novel won the 2024 Kirkus Prize, the National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Story ''James'' is loosely based on Mark Twain's ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'', with various scenes recontextualized or ending with different outcomes. The novels diverge by following Jim rather than Huck when the two are separated. Many characters are also reinterpreted. In Hannibal, Missouri, Jim, a slave owned by the elderly Miss Watson, survives day-to-day by following social conventions known to every slave he encounters, including his wife Sadie and daughter Lizzie. While speaking standard English to each other (and privately indulging in irony and gallows humor inspired by the perils of slave life), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daunt Books
Daunt Books is an independent chain of bookshops in England, founded in 1990 by James Daunt. It originally specialised in travel books. In 2010, it began publishing. James Daunt later became the managing director of Waterstones and the US bookstore chain Barnes & Noble. Bookshops Daunt Books was founded in 1990 by former banker James Daunt with the purchase of a bookshop on Marylebone High Street. It now focuses on first-hand titles (especially travel-related material). The Marylebone branch is housed in a former Edwardian bookshop with long oak galleries, graceful skylights and William Morris prints. The older section of the Marylebone shop was completed in 1912, and was originally an antiquarian bookshop called Francis Edwards. It is alleged to be the first custom-built bookshop in the world. A large, walk-in safe is visible near the entrance to the travel gallery, and is where expensive volumes were once stored. The company has branches in Holland Park, Cheapside, Hampste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Cape
Jonathan Cape is a British publishing firm headquartered in London and founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape, who was head of the firm until his death. Cape and his business partner Wren Howard (1893–1968) set up the publishing house in 1921. They established a reputation for high-quality design and production and a fine list of English-language authors, fostered by the firm's editor and publisher's reader, reader Edward Garnett. Cape's list of writers ranged from poets including Robert Frost and C. Day Lewis, to children's authors such as Roald Dahl, Hugh Lofting and Arthur Ransome, to James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, to heavyweight fiction by James Joyce and T. E. Lawrence. After Cape's death, the firm later merged successively with three other London publishing houses. In 1987 it was taken over by Random House. Its name continues as one of Random House's British Imprint (trade name), imprints. Cape – biography Early years Herbert Jonathan Cape was born in London o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li (Chinese: 李翊雲 - ''Li Yiyun'') (born November 4, 1972) is a Chinese-born writer and professor who has lived and worked in the United States since entering graduate school. She writes exclusively in English. Her short stories and novels have won several awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award and Guardian First Book Award for '' A Thousand Years of Good Prayers'', the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for ''Where Reasons End,'' and the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for '' The Book of Goose''. Her short story collection ''Wednesday's Child'' was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is an editor of the Brooklyn-based literary magazine '' A Public Space''. Biography Li was born and raised in Beijing, China. Her mother was a teacher and her father worked as a nuclear physicist. In ''Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life'', Li recounts moments from her early life, including the abuse by her mother. In 1991, Li fulfilled a compulsory year of se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nitin Sawhney
Nitin Sawhney (; born 1964) is a British musician, producer and composer. A recipient of the Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement award in 2017, among multiple international awards throughout his career. Sawhney's work combines Asian and other worldwide influences with elements of electronica and often explores themes such as multiculturalism, politics, and spirituality. Sawhney is also active in the promotion of arts and cultural matters, is chair of the PRS Foundation, sits on the board of trustees of theatre company Complicité, and is a patron of numerous film festivals, venues, and educational institutions. In 2021, he was an ambassador for the Royal Albert Hall. Sawhney has scored for and performed with orchestras, and collaborated with and written for Paul McCartney, Sting, the London Symphony Orchestra, A. R. Rahman, Brian Eno, Sinéad O'Connor, Jacob Golden, Anoushka Shankar, Jeff Beck, Shakira, Will Young, Joss Stone, Taio Cruz, Ellie Goulding, Horace Andy, Cirqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Collins
Sara Collins is a Jamaican-born Caymanian-British novelist and former lawyer. She earned a Costa Book Award for her 2019 historical fiction novel ''The Confessions of Frannie Langton''. Early life and law Collins was born in Kingston, Jamaica. When she was four years old, her family migrated to Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands, the home of her paternal grandmother, in light of political violence following the 1976 Jamaican election. She attended boarding school in England at the age of 11. Collins went on to graduate in law from the London School of Economics. She worked for 17 years as a lawyer, during which time she jointly edited ''International Trust Disputes''. She was a partner and Head of Trust & Private Client in the Cayman Islands office of Conyers Dill & Pearman. Writing Collins took a Master of Studies degree in creative writing at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, in 2014–2016. While studying at Cambridge, she was awarded the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
