作者lozoc (lozoc)
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标题2006 MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER
时间Wed Oct 11 11:12:58 2006
http://www.themanbookerprize.com/pressoffice/release?r=28#titletop
Youngest ever woman wins Man Booker Prize at age of 35
Kiran Desai was tonight (Tuesday 10th October) named the winner of the ㏒
50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Inheritance of Loss, published by
Hamish Hamilton.
The Indian-born writer has a strong family tie with the prize as her mother
Anita Desai has been shortlisted three times since 1980 but has never won.
This year, however, her daughter, Kiran, has won the acclaimed literary
prize.
Author of the 1998 universally praised Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, Desai
is the first woman to win the Man Booker since 2000 when Margaret Atwood
scooped the prize with The Blind Assassin. Her winning book, The Inheritance
of Loss, is a radiant, funny and moving family saga and has been described by
reviewers as &the best, sweetest, most delightful novel*.
This is the first time that Hamish Hamilton has published a Man Booker Prize
winner although they had two shortlisted authors in 2005.
Chair of the judges, Hermione Lee, made the announcement at the awards dinner
at the Guildhall, London, which was broadcast live on the BBC 10 O* Clock
News. Harvey McGrath, Chairman of Man Group plc, presented Kiran Desai with a
cheque for ㏒50,000.
Hermione Lee comments,
※We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Man Booker Prize for
2006 is Kiran Desai*s The Inheritance of Loss, a magnificent novel of humane
breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness. The
winner was chosen, after a long, passionate and generous debate, from a
shortlist of five other strong and original voices.§
Over and above her prize of ㏒50,000, Kiran Desai is guaranteed a huge
increase in sales and recognition worldwide. Each of the six shortlisted
authors, including the winner, receives ㏒2,500 and a designer-bound edition
of their book.
The judging panel for the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction is: Hermione Lee
(Chair), biographer, academic and reviewer; Simon Armitage, poet and
novelist; Candia McWilliam, award-winning novelist; critic Anthony Quinn; and
actor Fiona Shaw.
The Winner
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Hamish Hamilton, ㏒16.99
&Kiran Desai is a terrific writer. This book richly fulfils the promise of
her first.* - Salman Rushdie
In the north-eastern Himalayas, at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga, in an
isolated and crumbling house, there lives an embittered old judge, who wants
nothing more than to retire in peace. But with the arrival of his orphaned
granddaughter, Sai, and the son of his chatty cook trying to stay a step
ahead of US immigration services, this is far from easy.
When a Nepalese insurgency threatens the blossoming romance between Sai and
her handsome tutor, they, too, are forced to consider their colliding
interests. The judge must revisit his past, his own journey and his role in
this grasping world of conflicting desires - every moment holding out the
possibility for hope or betrayal.
Kiran Desai was born in India on 3rd September 1971 and is currently a
student at Columbia University*s Creative Writing Course. Her first novel
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard received accolades from many notable figures
and an excerpt was featured in the New Yorker India Fiction issue, and in
Mirrorwork, Salman Rushdie's controversial anthology of 50 years of Indian
writing. It went on to win the Betty Trask Award.
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