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May
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Mar
Zadie Smith might be best known as the audaciously skilled young author of “White Teeth” and “On Beauty,” but she claims her gifts lie elsewhere. “I think I’m a pretty talented writer,” she once told the poet Robert Hass, “but I’m a great reader.”
Judging by “The Book of Other People,” an anthology of stories [...]
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Dec
British author Zadie Smith has won the Orange Prize for Fiction with her third novel On Beauty, a comic homage to E M Forster’s Howard’s End exploring race, class and arrogance at a US university.
Smith wept as she accepted the 30,000 pound ($75,000) prize, the most prestigious award yet for a writer who has [...]
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Dec
Beowulf (113 mins, 12A) Directed by Robert Zemeckis; starring Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn, Brendan Gleeson, Angelina JolieThe Jane Austen Book Club (105 mins, 12A) Directed by Robin Swicord; starring Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Jimmy Smits, Hugh DancyBrick Lane (102 mins, 15) Directed by Sarah Gavron; starring [...]
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Dec
British author Zadie Smith has won the Orange Prize for Fiction with her third novel On Beauty, a comic homage to E M Forster’s Howard’s End exploring race, class and arrogance at a US university.
Smith wept as she accepted the 30,000 pound ($75,000) prize, the most prestigious award yet for a writer who has [...]
11
Dec
Kalte Spiele des Geistes - Nachrichten print-welt - WELT ONLINE
Posted by admin Published in nabokov novelBald gibt es den britischen Booker-Preis seit vierzig Jahren, und mit der Zeit gleicht es sich aus. 1989 war Kazuo Ishiguros Roman “Was vom Tage %26uuml;brigblieb” John Banvilles “Buch der Beweise” eine - wie die rennbegeisterten Briten gern sagen - knappe Nasenl%26auml;nge voraus, 16 Jahre sp%26auml;ter war es Zeit f%26uuml;r eine Revanche, und diesmal lief [...]
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