The Man Booker Prize For Fiction

Hi.. I thought i would write a post on the Booker prize…

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction represents the very best in contemporary fiction. Known as the Booker Prize (after Booker McConnell Ltd) this prestigious literature award was initiated in 1969 and is one of the world’s most prestigious awards, and one of incomparable influence, it continues to be the pinnacle of ambition for every fiction writer.
the prize aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. The Man Booker judges are selected from the country’s finest critics, writers and academics to maintain the consistent excellence of the prize.

Authors and their books that have won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in the past include:

1969: P. H. Newby – Something to Answer For
1970: Bernice Rubens – The Elected Member
1971: V.S. Naipaul – In a Free State
1972: John Berger – G
1973: J.G. Farrell – Siege of Krishnapur
1974: Stanley Middleton – Holiday
1975: Nadine Gordimer – The Conversationalist and Ruth Prower Jhabvala – Heat and Dust
1976: David Storey – Saville
1977: Paul Scott – Staying On
1978: Iris Murdoch – The Sea, The Sea
1979: Penelope Fitzgerald – Offshore
1980: William Golding – Rites of Passage
1981: Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children
1982: Thomas Keneally – Schindler’s Ark ((filmed as Schindler’s List)
1983: J.M. Coetzee – Life and Times of Michael K.
1984: Anita Brookner – Hotel Du Lac
1985: Keri Hulme – Bone People
1986: Kingsley Amis – The Old Devils
1987: Penelope Lively – Moon Tiger
1988: Peter Carey – Oscar and Lucinda
1989: Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day
1990: A.S. Byatt – Possession
1991: Ben Okri – The Famished Road
1992: Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient and Barry Unsworth – Sacred Hunger
1993: Roddy Doyle – Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1994: James Kelman – How Late It Was, How Late
1995: Pat Barker – The Ghost Road
1996: Graham Swift – Last Orders
1997: Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
1998: Ian McEwan – Amsterdam
1999: J.M. Coetzee – Disgrace
2000: Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin
2001: Peter Carey – True History of the Kelly Gang
2002: Yann Martel – Life of Pi
2003: DBC Pierre (Peter Warren Finlay) – Vernon God Little
2004: Alan Hollinghurst – The Line of Beauty
2005: John Banville – The Sea
2006: Kiran Desai – The Inheritance Of Loss

Proof?!

Harward maths proof of the most important theorem of life!

1. To find a woman, you need time and money,therefore,
woman = time x money.
2. “Time is Money”, so,
time = money
3. Which implies,
woman = money x money
therefore woman = (money)^2
4. “Money is the root of all problems”, so,
money = sqrt(problems)
5. Therefore,
woman = (sqrt(problems))^2
woman = problems!

Hmmm, i dunno, but i believe its sort of true!