Topic: Andrew Motion

Patience (After Sebald) - review

Grant Gee's minimalist film essay about the German writer W G Sebald, who lived and worked in Britain but wrote in his native language, is set...

Patience (After Sebald) – review

Teasing and elegant ... Grant Gee's documentary Patience (After Sebald) . In the summer of 1992, the author WG Sebald, "irradiated by melancholy"...
Read more - Emma Donoghue has plenty of "Room". . Howard Jacobson was last night announced as the winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for his comic...
Howard Jacobson was last night announced as the winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for his comic novel "The Finkler Question". Irish author Emma...

Outsider Howard Jacobson wins Man Booker Prize

Winner of this year's Man Booker Prize Howard Jacobson said he had waited a "long time" for such an accolade as he picked up the award. I don't think I have any right to suppose that I should have won ...

Comic novel scoops Man Booker Prize for first time

LONDON (Reuters) - British author Howard Jacobson was the surprise winner of the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday for "The Finkler Question," the first comedy to scoop one of the English-speaking world's most coveted literary awards.The 68-year-old novelist and critic, who ...

Howard Jacobson wins Booker Prize

Howard Jacobson has won this year's Man Booker Prize for his comic novel The Finkler Question. Chairman of the judges and former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion said the tale of two old schoolfriends and their teacher was funny but "so nearly ...

Two-time Booker winner Carey tops 2010 shortlist

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Two-time Man Booker winner Australian author Peter Carey, Howard Jacobson and Andrea Levy go head to head in the final field of six authors vying for one of the world's most influential literary prizes.But the popular selling ...

Poet Motion to chair 2010 Booker Prize judges

LONDON (Reuters Life! ) - Former poet laureate Andrew Motion will chair the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, one of the world's top literary awards, organizers said on Wednesday.The 57-year-old and his panel will have to read over 100 novels before ...

Newdigate Prize

Newdigate Prize, poetry prize founded in 1805 by Sir Roger Newdigate and awarded at the University of Oxford. Famous winners include Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and British poet laureate Andrew Motion..