From The Sopranos to Dr Who and Sex and the City, we all have our favourites. We talk TV series secrets with journalist and author Nils Ahl. Also, after once dismissing it as 'posh bingo', the author Julian Barnes wins one of the world's most prestigious literary prizes, the Man Booker. Our literary critic Augustin Trapenard joins us to discuss the prize. And did Vincent Van Gogh really kill himself? A new theory on the artist's death emerges.
Outspoken author Julian Barnes won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday. Barnes had been shortlisted three times before triumphing this year with "The Sense of an Ending", a 150-page novel about a man revisiting his past.
It took him 12 years to get published. Since then, his debut book 'Legend of a Suicide' has been on 25 'best books of the year' lists in the US, UK, Ireland and Australia. It's a bestseller in France; and is being published in more than six languages in 50 countries. It's also being made into a film. The author received one of the top literary awards in the world - a "Prix Medicis" which is France's version of the Pulitzer Prize for for Literature. Eve Jackson meets David Vann.
Today, literary news as the very prestigious Man Booker Prize has been awarded yesterday evening in London. The winner is Howard Jacobson for his novel 'The Finkler Question', a funny and heartbreaking story about 'Jewishness', or what it means to be Jewish today.
Hilary Mantel has been awarded the Man Booker Prize, one of English-language literature's top honours, for her historical novel “Wolf Hall”, which traces Thomas Cromwell's rise to become one of Henry VIII’s most trusted aides.
The 29th Paris Book Fair opens on Friday with an emphasis on Latin American literature and a tribute to the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth.
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