Tsitsi Dangarembga, the award-winning Zimbabwean novelist who was nominated for the long list of Booker Awards earlier this week, was arrested during anti-corruption protests in Harare. Dangarembga, whose novel This Mournable Body was long-listed for the UK’s first fiction prize alongside Hilary Mantel and Anne Tyler, documented her arrest in …
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Hilary Mantel’s “masterful” conclusion to her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, has been featured on the long list for the Booker Prize, putting the British novelist on the run to win an unprecedented third time. Mantel’s 900-page novel, which opens after Anne Boleyn has been beheaded in …
Read More »[ad_1] WWe can discuss which John Steinbeck novel is the best. Some might choose The Grapes of Wrath, an epic about the working class, about migration. Others might say Tortilla Flat, about a group of unemployed countrymen living from one small party to another. Or maybe Of Mice and Men, …
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