Booker prize founder and publisher of some of the greats of 20th-century fictionTom Maschler, publisher and managing director of Jonathan Cape and the architect of the Booker prize for fiction, has died aged 87. A glamorous, perma-tanned figure with aquiline features and unruly hair, who dressed... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-10-16 17:49:02 UTC ]
In our digital age, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel prize is a reminder that it is still novels that ask the biggest questionsIt’s always entertaining to observe the interaction between the news media and a writer who has just won the Nobel prize. The all-time best was obviously Doris Lessing, who when... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
I first met Peter Owen in the late 1980s, when he published some short stories that I had written about Saudi Arabia. I was invited to interesting parties at his house in Holland Park, west London, and at various embassies where he would launch the many translations of literary fiction he... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new book celebrating the best writing of the past century follows a well-worn script when it comes to equalityI’ve been dipping in and out of DJ Taylor’s fat new book, The Prose Factory, a pleasingly gossipy history of literary life in England since 1918, and so far as it goes, it’s very... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Historian Patrick French has been appointed as Doris Lessing’s new biographer. Lessing died in November 2013 at the age of 94. French is the author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorised Biography of V. S. Naipaul (Picador), which won the Hawthornden Prize and The National Book Critics... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
A memorial service for Doris Lessing will be held at St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing died at her home in London on Sunday, her publisher announced. She was 94.Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing died at her home in London on Sunday, her publisher announced. She was 94. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]