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Tsitsi Dangarembga: Are we mourning ourselves, each other and this state we are in?

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The author discusses the trilogy of novels that propelled her onto the Booker shortlist, and their relevance to present-day Zimbabwe
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Maaza Mengiste: ‘We are now catching up with the past’

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As war drums beat again in Ethiopia, author Maaza Mengiste finds new language to memorialise the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
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‘I feel women should say what they think’

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Eleanor Catton, winner of the 2013 Man Booker prize, is bothered by the uneven treatment accorded to men and women in the public eye.
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Concerns raised as Booker prize moves beyond ‘Commonwealth’

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As the Man Booker prize extends its call for entries to countries such as the US, some fear this move will degrade the prestigious contest.
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NoViolet Bulawayo makes Man Booker Prize longlist

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Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo is the only African on the Booker longlist that includes celebrated authors like Colm Tóibín and Jim Crace.
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Finding peace after the terror of war

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Tan Twan Eng uses the concepts that underpin Japanese gardens and the ancient Chinese gardens on which they are based to construct this unusual novel.
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Barnes a unanimous choice for Booker

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British novelist Julian Barnes finally won the literary prize that has eluded him on three previous occasions.
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Insults and rivalries ahead of Booker Prize announcement

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It has insults, rivalries and bitter accusations. The battle for Britain's most prestigious literary award is proving to be a page-turner.
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The burden of memory

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<b>Justine Jordan</b> reviews Julian Barnes's novella that has been shortlisted for the Booker prize.
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SA’s Damon Galgut nominated for Booker Prize

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South African author Damon Galgut has been nominated for a Booker Prize for his novel, <i>In a Strange Room</i>.
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JM Coetzee to shun Booker prize ceremony again

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He may be about to make history, but JM Coetzee will not be ruining his reputation as a reclusive writer by turning up at the Booker Prize ceremony.
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JM Coetzee in running for third Booker crown

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South African author JM Coetzee is in the running for an unprecedented third Booker Prize, after he was named on this year's shortlist on Tuesday.
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Booked for pleasure

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Ion Trewin, literary director of the Man Booker Prize, talks to Darryl Accone on the eve of the 40th Booker.
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Best of the Booker

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Salman Rushdie's epoch-making novel <i>Midnight's Children</i> is the best-ever winner of the Man Booker (literary) prize, according to a public vote.
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Salman Rushdie named best of the Booker bunch

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Salman Rushdie is probably the Booker Prize's best-known winner. Now he is officially the best.
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