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"However, starting in 2016, the International Prize is going to be awarded every year, just like the Man Booker Prize, to a specific work of translated fiction!"Hello! I'm a bit confused by this bit above from a post which was made by Maxwell. What I'm getting is the Manbooker international prize is aside from the Man booker prize(?) I tried researching on it, but only came out with insubstantial results.
Thank you.
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Hello! I'm a bit confused by this ..."
Hi Anne! Yes, the International Man Booker is different than the regular Man Booker Prize. It used to be that every 2 years, Man Booker would award one International author a prize for their entire written works, not just 1 novel like is awarded in the Man Booker prize. But starting in 2016, the International Prize will be conducted like the regular Man Booker prize. There will be a longlist of 12 or 13 translated international works, and the committee will choose 1 winner from that group.
Hope that makes sense :)
Maxwell wrote: "Anne wrote: ""However, starting in 2016, the International Prize is going to be awarded every year, just like the Man Booker Prize, to a specific work of translated fiction!"Hello! I'm a bit conf..."
Yes, I do get it now. Thank you!
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An award for an author's entire work is like...waow. What an acknowledgment!
Asking this here before I make a fool of myself in public! How do you stop Goodreads from sending you emails? I keep going into the options at the bottom of a discussion and editing them to say "notification only" and it seems they keep switching back to "personal email". I've switched off everything I can see on my profile page, but the settings on individual topics seem to have a life of their own!
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Go to your settings by clicking the little down arrow next to your profile picture in the top right corner. Click 'edit profile,' and select the 'emails' tab. Then you can set up which emails you do and do not want to receive. Hope that helps!
Maxwell - I have done that and have set everything to notification only. But I still get emails. So I go to the discussion that has sent me the email and explicitly tell that one to do notifications only. A few days later that setting mysteriously changes back to emails! I've lost count of how many times I have asked for notifications only from a discussion only to suddenly start receiving emails again without me changing anything.
Maxwell wrote: "Neil wrote: "Asking this here before I make a fool of myself in public! How do you stop Goodreads from sending you emails? I keep going into the options at the bottom of a discussion and editing th..."Maxwell, I changed the setting on the discussion we are having about The God of Small Things to notification only. This morning, it started sending me emails again and the setting has changed! I have changed it back again and will keep an eye on it.
I am going to raise a query on the general Goodreads question area as our discussion on TGOST has just started emailing me again for no apparent reason.
Hmmm would it be possible to open a thread with a list of all the man booker winners and a strike through the ones we have read for the club?I know it consists of a simple google search but maybe it will make things even easier if posted in the group.
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If you look at the homepage of the group, at the bottom there is a 'bookshelf.' Once we've read a book, I'll be adding it to that list so we can see which one's have been read in the group. When I have some time to sit down and do it, I can also add all the other Man Booker winners to our 'to read' shelf so people can reference that for nominating in the future.
Hi!I noticed the December group read disappeared from the homepage. There are only The God of Small Things as Currently Reading and The Line of Beauty for January read.
Though I would give a heads-up so it can be fixed!:)
Making my TBR for March and haven't seen a post for the next book. Are we still Manbookeri g and I've just missed the post?
Sherri wrote: "Making my TBR for March and haven't seen a post for the next book. Are we still Manbookeri g and I've just missed the post?"Sherri - I think we said March would be about the international prize when the list is announced
Neil wrote: "Sherri wrote: "Making my TBR for March and haven't seen a post for the next book. Are we still Manbookeri g and I've just missed the post?"Sherri - I think we said March would be about the intern..."
Thanks, Neil
Neil wrote: " I think we said March would be about the international prize when the list is announced "The longlist is due on 10th March, and the shortlist on 14th April.
Maxwell wrote: "Robert wrote: "Hmmm would it be possible to open a thread with a list of all the man booker winners and a strike through the ones we have read for the club?I know it consists of a simple google sea..."Maxwell wrote: "Robert wrote: "Hmmm would it be possible to open a thread with a list of all the man booker winners and a strike through the ones we have read for the club?I know it consists of a simple google sea..."
Great idea! I have a list of my own, but not having to search for it will really help. That's why you're the moderator!
Re: List of past winners etc - I have an Excel spreadsheet with all the past winners, shortlisted and longlisted (the latter only started being released quite recently) but I can't see any way of uploading Excel on Goodreads. However I am happy to provide a copy if anyone knows how to get it onto the internet!
Lisa wrote: "Re: List of past winners etc - I have an Excel spreadsheet with all the past winners, shortlisted and longlisted (the latter only started being released quite recently) but I can't see any way of u..."There is this -> GR Man Booker list which includes winners and nominees.
At this point in the competition, can we please write without worrying about spoilers? I want to talk with people about the books, not just some vague muttering a about whether they liked it. If someone hasn't finished a particular book yet, they shouldn't be reading that particular thread. Btw, I didn't realise we weren't allowed to discuss the contents of the books, so I did, and now I can't edit my posts, so someone might want to go and edit them. Sorry.
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You are allowed to discuss spoilers and the content of the books. We just ask that you make it known at the start of your comment that you will be spoiling it.
Lisa wrote: "Re: List of past winners etc - I have an Excel spreadsheet with all the past winners, shortlisted and longlisted (the latter only started being released quite recently) but I can't see any way of u..."I have a similar spreadsheet that was based on the Wikipedia page of winners and shortlisted books. Yesterday, I added all of the longlisted books back to 2001, which is when the longlist was first made public - the first few of these longlists were longer than the ones we have seen for the last few years, and can be browsed at themanbookerprize.com. I was thinking it might be a good idea to create an index (or maybe even three indexes - one each sorted by year, author and title) with GR links, but I'm not sure where the best place to post it would be. It might take a while to create the links, since there are now 435 books on the list.
Any thoughts?
Yes I got my longlist information from the bookerprize.com website and as you say they did not make the longlists public before 2001. I am not sure how to do a GR index either but am happy to help populate a list if someone lets me know where and how!
Guys there's a PDF available in Booker's site for download which has the list of books nominated each year and the winner along with some interesting information about that year's awards. Have you checked it out? it's in the archive section.
Hugh, I think Goodreads already has an index for Booker nominated books for each year. I remember seeing it in the Literary Prizes section of books listed for the Booker.(On the individual pages of each book there is info about the awards that book has won and clicking on Booker will take us to a list containing all the long listed novels that year)
Pechi, There is but it doesn't include the first 5 or 6 published longlists. I would also like to create one sorted by author and by title...
Hi Team. Hope everyone is enjoying gorging themselves on this year's Man Booker Longlist. Just started my first, Days Without End, and I'm loving it!I wanted to be able to get through as many of these titles as possible but to buys them all hard copy seems to be quite an expensive venture. I was thinking of getting a kindle and wanted to see what everyone thought on kindle vs hard copy, and beyond that, if they are a kindle advocate, which of kindles current offerings would be my best bet.
Hoping this question isn't too off topic for the group - but figured a group full of such avid readers would be a good place for the advice.
Thanks in advanced for any comments.
I have a Kindle and got 3 of the nominees as a Kindle edition. The price difference was quite good for 2 of those. I got Days Without End in the Paperback edition because it was actually cheaper and rather pretty, too ☺ I also have an Audible subscription and will listen to both Swing Time and Exit West on audio. For some books that are not yet out as paperbacks, that's a very good alternative.
I do about two-thirds of my reading on my Kindle. The main reason for this is that my house is full of books already and my wife still buys paper books. If I did, too, we would be in trouble even though we make fairly frequent trips to the charity shop. Both of us like to keep copies of books we like.When it comes to actual reading, I don't have a preference between paper or electronic. As long as I get the words somehow, I am not fussed.
I use a Kindle Voyage. I would not upgrade to the new one as I think it is very over-priced. But the Voyage is a very clear screen. I had a Paperwhite previously and was actually perfectly happy with that and you can pick one of them up fairly cheaply now that they are a couple of generations old.
I only buy physical. i have tried to read books in a digital format and failed. This means i have a huge library and i live in a small flat. It also means that every two years i have a huge purge and donate books to someone.
Thanks for everyone's comments and suggestions.Have decided to hold off on he kindle until Xmas maybe and use this time to chew through some of the books I aggressively over purchased last year. Own about 40-50 I haven't read.
I have a U.K. First Edition of Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha. The title on the front cover spells it as Clark but Why is “Clark” spelled as “Clarke” on the spine of the book? Was this by intention or a publishing error? I Noticed on later editions it is Clarke on both the front cover and spine.
A quick google would suggest a pure typo and that it adds to the value of a book - Abebooks is selling one similar
Hi!Nice to meet everyone!
Have someone suggestions for SF books?
Do you know if there's a set time for the shortlist to be released? Or will it depend on... the circumstances, the judges deliberations etc?
If you did mean MBI 7.15pm And the shortlist would have been chosen some days ago, the publisher may even have been told in advance (they were for longlist) - we aren't waiting for a puff of white smoke.
Do we at some (early) point start talking about possible books on the MB long list?
Hi guys, are we going to choose a title for June now that the MBI is over?
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Hi Barbara, that is still being decided. We will send out a message soon. Thanks for checking!
Maxwell wrote: "Barbara wrote: "Hi guys, are we going to choose a title for June now that the MBI is over?"Hi Barbara, that is still being decided. We will send out a message soon. Thanks for checking!"
Hi Max, thank you so much for the quick reply! If that counts for anything, I'd love to do some "old-fashioned" ManBookering after three months with the MBI.
Ian wrote: "Are we not reading the ManBooker International winner for 2018. Flights first Polish winner,looks a good read."Ian, because we follow the long list and then the short list for the International Prize, many in the group have already read it. We add this to the list of books already read. When we nominate and vote on books for the group to read in the future, we select from books not on the list of ones previously read. When we get around to nominations/voting again, one of the moderators will publish that list along with the message calling for nominations. I hope that's correct and clear. Max? Britta?
Do you know what time today they will announce the man booker golden shortlist?
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6pm BST!
