Article: Alan Hollinghurst wins Booker prize.

Transcript: Profile: Controversy over opening the Booker ...
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR);  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Profile: Controversy over opening the Booker Prize to American authors Host: SCOTT SIMON ... 2:00 PM SCOTT SIMON, host: The Booker Prize is one of the most prestigious literary ... company called the Man Group took over the Booker Prize sponsorship. The company is changing ...

Article: Expansion of Booker Prize Debated
AP Online;  May 22, 2002 ;     655 words ... ... book sales. But a move to open the Booker Prize to American authors has caused a storm ... I think it will inevitably alter the Booker Prize as we know it, Jardine told the British ... 73,000 and rename the award the Man Booker Prize. The committee has discussed the idea ...

Article: Plans to open Booker Prize to American writers ...
AP Worldstream;  May 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... book sales. But a move to open the Booker Prize to American authors has caused a storm ... I think it will inevitably alter the Booker Prize as we know it, Jardine told the British ... 000) and rename the award the Man Booker Prize. The committee has discussed the idea ...

Article: Cheltenham Festival: The literary lottery CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL: ...
The Independent - London;  October 15, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... Carmen Callil, chair of the 1996 Booker Prize answered: "a) esteem b) money c ... excellent shorthand for the effect of the Booker Prize itself. Indeed John Bayley, himself ... Booker chair myself I don't see how the Booker Prize can ever get it right ... no novelist ...

Article: Booker Prize Chair Caine Dies at 71
AP Online;  March 24, 1999 ;     531 words ...AP Online 03-24-1999 Booker Prize Chair Caine Dies at 71 LONDON ... behind Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for fiction, has died. He was ... business and saw the $32,000 Booker Prize as an encouragement to new writing ...

Article: Booker Prize Goes To Author in Spain, THE MOSCOW ...
The Moscow Times (Russia);  December 5, 2003 ;     667 words ... ... named winner of the 2003 Open Russia Booker Prize for his novel, "White on Black ... Founded in 1991 by the prestigious British Booker Prize, the Russian Booker was hailed as the ... critic Igor Shaitanov, who heads the Booker Prize, argued that the number of nominees ...

Transcript: The Booker Prize: Our London Cabbie's Review
NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday;  October 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Edition - Saturday 10-11-2008 The Booker Prize: Our London Cabbie's Review Host ... they shrink their shortlist for the Man Booker Prize from six to the winner next Tuesday. The Booker Prize is awarded to the best work of fiction ...