Podcasts about golden man booker prize

One of the world's most celebrated writers, Michael Ondaatje is the author of such acclaimed works as Running in the Family, Anil's Ghost, In the Skin of a Lion and The English Patient, which won the 2018 Golden Man Booker Prize, named the best novel of the Booker's 50-year history. His writing, both poetry and prose, is often rooted in history – from Toronto in the early 1900s, to North Africa during the Second World War, to Ondaatje's childhood in Sri Lanka. He recently won the Grand Prix for lifetime achievement from Montreal's Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival.

In an extended interview, the Booker Prize winning poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje sits down with Ian McMillan to discuss the pleasure of naming characters, dark houses as settings, listeners in his fiction, his re-shaping of forms, and the enduring inspiration of music, along with other aspects of his writing process. Michael is best known for his critically acclaimed novel, 'The English Patient', turned into an Oscar winning film starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, and now on the shortlist for the Golden Man Booker Prize - celebrating the past 50 years of winners. One of the most important musical ideas that informs Michael's work comes from the jazz musician Ornette Coleman - who said that 'you begin with the territory and what follows is the adventure'. Ian riffs off the 'territory' outlined in Michael's rich and sensuous poem 'Death at Kataragama', and uses its themes to inspire an adventure through his books - starting with his first novel 'Coming Through Slaughter' and including his seventh, 'Warlight' (Cape), set in the aftermath of World War Two. In this programme, Michael reads 'Death at Kataragama' from his poetry collection 'Handwriting' (Cape), from his novels 'Warlight', 'The English Patient', 'Coming Through Slaughter', and from his memoir 'Running in the Family'. We also hear extracts from 'In the Skin of a Lion' and his afterword to 'The Collected Works of Billy the Kid'. Presenter: Ian McMillan Producer: Faith Lawrence

In this month's newsletter, we have highlights from all of the titles added in the last few weeks, an in-depth review of "Alone in Berlin" by Hans Falada by the wonderful team at St Alban's Talking Newspapers, and we help celebrate the winner of the one-off Golden Man Booker Prize!

In our next podcast episode, host Joe Haddow takes us to the Man Booker 50 Festival held at Southbank Centre the weekend of 6-8 July. In this star studded episode Joe talks to previous Man Booker Prize winners about what impact the victory has had on their career. Joe catches up with 2007 winner Anne Enright, 2010 winner Howard Jacobson, who emphasise the importance of the novel nowadays. He then talks to 2016 winner Paul Beatty and 1993 winner Roddy Doyle. We then head to the Royal Festival Hall at Southbank Centre where Baroness Helena Kennedy QC proclaims The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje the winner of this special one-off award. Joe then talks to the judge of the 1990s, Kamila Shamsie, who shares her views on the winning novel and the importance it had on her life. Joe then speaks with Chiwetel Ejiofor, who was invited to read passages from the shortlisted novels alongside with fellow actors Fiona Shaw, Geoffrey Streatfeild and Meera Syal. In the next episode of the Man Booker podcasts out on 20th July, Joe will catch up with previous winners Alan Hollinghurst and Marlon James, Eleanor Catton, Colm Toibin, Ben Okri and many more. Stay tuned for the 2018 Man Booker longlist, which will be announced on Tuesday 24th July.

In this episode, we bring you some of the highlights from Man Booker 50 festival at Southbank Centre, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker Prize. We hear extracts from a talk with novelists Alan Hollinghurst and Marlon James; a debate about the meaning and importance of genres; the moment the winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize, Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, was announced; and interviews with judges Robert McCrum and Kamila Shamsie backstage after the announcement. Man Booker 50 festival ran at Southbank Centre from 6 - 8 July 2018.

This year, the Man Booker Prize is celebrating its 50th anniversary. To mark the special event, a one-off Golden Man Booker Prize is being given to a previous winner crowning the overall best work of fiction from the last five decades of the prize. The five books thought to have best stood the test of time are: In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul; Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively; The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje; Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel; and Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. We listen to them all and talk to some of the authors on the shortlist in this Man Booker special.

In the second episode of the Golden Man Booker podcasts, host Joe Haddow continues the journey through the shortlisted novels for this special prize. Joe catches up with Simon Mayo about his selected shortlist novel from the 2010s, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and with Lemn Sissay about the 1987 winner Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively. Joe then talks to Ted Hodgkinson, Senior Programmer, Literature and Spoken Word at the Southbank Centre, about the upcoming Man Booker 50 Festival and Dotti Irving, Chief Executive of Four Culture, who's been involved with the prize for over 25 years.

In the first episode of our Golden Man Booker Prize podcasts, host Joe Haddow delves into this one-off spacial anniversary prize's shortlist. We start with judge Simon Mayo announcing the 'Golden Five' shortlist live at Hay Festival. Joe then catches up with judges Robert McCrum about his selected shortlisted novel from the 1970s, In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul, Hollie McNish about the 2017 winner Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders and the recently announced winner of the Women's Prize For Fiction, Kamila Shamsie on her selected novel from the 1990s The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. You can vote online at www.themanbookerprize.com/vote for your favourite of the 'Golden Five' to win (voting open 26th May - 25th June 2018) The winner is announced on 8th July at the Man Booker 50 Festival at Southbank Centre London - Tickets available from the Southbank Centre website #ManBooker50

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Entrevue avec Raphaël Liogier pour son essai Descente au cœur du mâle. Ça nous intéresse avec Jean-Philippe Cipriani; Michael Ondaatje en lice pour le Golden Man Booker Prize. Le club BD avec Jean-Paul Eid et François Lemay. Et une heure en compagnie de l’auteure jeunesse Dominique Demers.