Some find Melvin Burgess’s new novel of adolescent discovery aimed at teenage boys upsetting, writes Fiachra Gibbons.
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/ 25 October 2002
Montreal-based author Yann Martel has won the 000 Man Booker Prize in the most surreal of circumstances, seven days after the organisers mistakenly announced his victory on their website, writes Fiachra Gibbons.
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/ 19 December 2001
Judges switched on as Turner Prize goes to the creed of nothingness, writes Fiachra Gibbons.
Lars von Trier announced that he loved Bjork very much and three Iranians scooped prizes. Fiachra Gibbons reports on some of the surprises at this year’s Cannes awards ceremony.
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/ 16 February 2000
American Beauty by British director Sam Mendes tops the list with eight Oscar nominations, report Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles and Fiachra Gibbons.