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The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland.
Feb 15, 2024 · Here, we present your favourite classics that have been nominated for the Booker Prize – a selection of bestsellers and hidden gems that span the decades, offering a journey through the must-reads of the prize, and beyond. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James. Jamaica, 1976. Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley’s house, machine guns blazing.
Some, such as Life of Pi, have even gone from book to screen and stage, and many of them have won the most prestigious film and television awards, such as the Oscar-winning Schindler’s List, The Remains of the Day and The English Patient, the Emmy-winning The Handmaid’s Tale and the BAFTA-winning Wolf Hall.
- Best Pictures and Books. Many of the best films in history, according to the Oscars, first started out as pieces of literature. Relive those stories here.
- All About Eve based on The Wisdom of Eve, a short story by Mary Orr. This Bette Davis film about ambition and betrayal between actress Margo Channing and her innocent-seeming understudy Eve Harrington was based on short story, The Wisdom of Eve.
- From Here to Eternity based on the novel From Here to Eternity by James Jones. The film version of From Here to Eternity wasn't the only rendition to bring home an award.
- Around the World in Eighty Days based on the novel Around the World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne. This 1873 novel by Victorian sci-fi pioneer Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth) would go on to be adapted multiple times, but Michael Anderson’s 1954 film was the only adaptation to win an Oscar for Best Picture.
Nov 16, 2022 · From Margaret Atwood to Kazuo Ishiguro, the Booker Prize has been celebrating and rewarding the best writers of long-form fiction in the English language since 1969. Here is a definitive list of the winning, shortlisted and longlisted authors alongside their novels, since the prize’s inception
Apr 25, 2021 · 43 Best-Picture Oscar Winners Are Based On Books — How Many Have You Read? Are you a movie buff, mega reader — or both?
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The Hate U Give is a 2017 young adult novel by Angie Thomas. It is Thomas's debut novel, expanded from a short story she wrote in college in reaction to the police shooting of Oscar Grant.
