Article: Library set to break its silence for Booker prize debate.(Entertainment)

Article: Downpatrick Library hosting its own booker night
Belfast Telegraph;  October 14, 2003 ;     323 words ...DOWNPATRICK Library is staging its popular Booker Prize night tonight starting at 8pm. On the same night that the world's most famous literary prize is presented in full view of the ...

Article: REVIEW: Alternative jury with their eye on the prize; People's ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  October 22, 2002 ;     571 words ... ... appeared to give the game away last week, Downpatrick Library is still staging its very own 'Booker Prize' around the same time as the world ... Admission free, with refreshments, Downpatrick Library, Market Street Downpatrick, tel ...

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 ...