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Man Booker Looks Back
The Man Booker Prizes have announced a one-off prize - The Lost Man Booker - to honour books published in 1970 that missed out on the opportunity to win the Booker Prize. In 1971, two years after it began, the Booker Prize 'ceased to be awarded retrospectively and became, as it is today, a prize for the best novel in the year of publication. At the same time, the date on which the award was given moved from April to November.' As a result of these changes, much of the fiction published in 1970 'fell through the net' and was never considered for the Man Booker.
The Man Booker Prizes have announced a longlist of twenty-two books including Patrick White's The Vivisector and Shirley Hazzard's The Bay of Noon. The shortlist for The Lost Man Booker will be announced in March and the overall winner, decided by the international reading public, will be declared in May. For further information, go to The Man Booker Prizes' website.
Cloudstreet Tops ABR Fan Poll
Tim Winton's Cloudstreet polled the highest number of votes, by a margin of three to one, in Australian Book Review's recent Fan Poll. Cloudstreet's nearest rival was Henry Handel Richardson's The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, followed by Patrick White's Voss and Winton's, Breath.
ABR was particularly heartened by the large number of nineteenth-century novels nominated by readers. For a list of all 290 nominated titles, go the Fan Poll list on Australian Book Review's website. You can also follow the link to view the top twenty vote winners.
UPCOMING EVENTS/PRIZES/LAUNCHES
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- ASAL Conference 2010 Call for Papers 05 Nov 2009
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- CFP for 2010 AAALS Annual Conference in Washington, DC 25 Feb 2010
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ON THIS DAY, 9 FEBRUARY...
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- Daniel Puseley born 1814, 4 works
- George Randall born 1843, 4 works
- Frances Gillam Holden born 1843, 23 works
- Owen Lewis born 1862, 1 works
- A. W. Wheen born 1897, 4 works
- Stuart McDonald born 1903, 5 works
- Joe Czynski born 1907, 3 works
- Teodors Tomsons born 1909, 8 works
- Jack Beasley born 1921, 45 works
- Robert Bropho born 1930, 5 works
- C. Hocking born 1932, 1 works
- Bill Hannan born 1932, 1 works
- John Rickard born 1935, 30 works
- John Woodley born 1938, 1 works
- Cyril Coaby born 1938, 2 works
- Duncan Ball born 1941, 65 works
- Elizabeth Webby born 1942, 168 works
- Silvana Gardner born 1942, 329 works
- Derryn Hinch born 1944, 8 works
- Moya Costello born 1952, 94 works
- Jan Hutchinson born 1952, 28 works
- Michael Cathcart born 1956, 14 works
- Glenn McGrath born 1970, 3 works
- Rebecca Kemble born 1981, 2 works
- Charles Gavan Duffy died 1903, 2 works
- Grace Jennings Carmichael died 1904, 31 works
- George A. Walstab died 1909, 10 works
- Benjamin Hoare died 1932, 18 works
- Lance Skuthorp died 1958, 5 works
- M. Hamlyn-Harris died 1964, 62 works
- Stuart Gore died 1984, 8 works
- Morva Cogan died 1993, 14 works
- P. R. Eaden died 2001, 6 works
- F. H. Mares died 2001, 36 works
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