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Dec 1, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Samantha Harvey |Anne Michaels |Rachel Kushner |Percival L. Everett
Thank you for taking the time to talk to me about the Booker Prize shortlist. How many books did you have to read in your search for the best novels of 2024? And did you notice any trends among the submissions? We read 156 books. I noticed there were a lot of books focusing on issues around identity in different ways—although perhaps I’m more acutely attuned to the idea because I made an album called Identity—and reconciling the past with the present.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
lesen.de | Anne Michaels
WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**The international bestseller****A Guardian Book of the Autumn 2023****Chosen as a book of the year by the independent. co.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Elif Shafak |Elizabeth Strout |Anne Michaels |Marta Hillers
Kavita is the creator, writer and presenter of the Three Million podcast on BBC Sounds, which won the Gold for Best New Podcast at the British Podcast Awards 2024, and the accompanying book – a “groundbreaking” investigation of the 1943 Bengal famine – is set to publish in 2026. Her Radio 4 docu-series Three Pounds in My Pocket is currently on its fifth season and has been described as “captivating and epic” by The Guardian.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
cbc.ca | Anne Michaels |Roberta Rich |Anh Duong
On Nov. 11, Canadians will mark Remembrance Day. CBC Books has curated this list of 11 books by Canadian authors that give insight into experiences of war, its impact on human life and its lasting reverberations. Held by Anne MichaelsHeld is a novel by Anne Michaels.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Rachel Kushner |Samantha Harvey |Charlotte Wood |Anne Michaels
One of the highlights of the annual Booker Prize season comes when each of the shortlisted authors is presented with a unique, hand-bound edition of their nominated works, created by Fellows from the Designer Bookbinders society. These extraordinary, one-of-a-kind books are designed and made between the shortlist announcement and winner ceremony.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | Anne Michaels
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
biblioracle.substack.com | Anne Michaels |Renata Adler |John Warner
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
piper.de | Anne Michaels
DATENSCHUTZ & Einwilligung für das Kommentieren auf der Website des Piper VerlagsDie Piper Verlag GmbH, Georgenstraße 4, 80799 München, [email protected] verarbeitet Ihre personenbezogenen Daten (Name, Email, Kommentar) zum Zwecke des Kommentierens einzelner Bücher oder Blogartikel und zur Marktforschung (Analyse des Inhalts). Rechtsgrundlage hierfür ist Ihre Einwilligung gemäß Art 6I a), 7, EU DSGVO, sowie § 7 II Nr.3, UWG.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
theboar.org | Anne Michaels |Ellinor Hopkins
“Here is storytelling in which people confront the world in all its instability and complexity.”Edmund de Waal, Chair of the Booker Prize 2024September 16 saw the release of the much-anticipated Booker Prize Shortlist, live from Somerset House, London. Making history for including the first Dutch author to be shortlisted, and including the most female authors in 55 years, this year’s Booker list shocked and united many.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
mindfood.com | Percival L. Everett |Samantha Harvey |Rachel Kushner |Anne Michaels
The detail is a first in the globally-recognised literary competition’s 55-year history. The prestigious award honours fiction in English written by authors of any nationality published in the UK and Ireland, and is chosen by a panel of judges from the literary world. Authors from five countries appear on this year’s list, including the first Dutch writer to be shortlisted, the first Australian in 10 years, as well as British, Canadian and American authors.
