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Anita Desai knows from cruel experience about the horrors of competing for big literary awards. Three times the renowned Indian novelist has been a finalist for the MAN Booker Prize for fiction, and three times she's failed to win it. But last week, says Desai, the stress was worse than ever?because this time, the finalist was her daughter Kiran. Roused by her sister-in-law at 5 a.m. on Oct. 11, Anita turned on the television to see that Kiran, at age 35, had become the youngest woman ever to win the Booker. "I wanted it so much...
...sharp sting of success. Last week Turkey was in the embarrassing position of having native son ORHAN PAMUK win the Nobel Prize for literature within a year of charging him with insulting Turkish identity. Critics also made much of Indian-born novelist KIRAN DESAI winning Britain's Man Booker Prize after her mum was short-listed three times for the $93,000 award. But the fuss is over. Everyone can go back to ignoring serious authors again...
...Williams also forgets to mention another such leader when he points out that James was narrowly reelected in 2002 with Jackson’s strong support. Williams fails to note that the victory was over Cory Booker, a 37-year-old Yale-trained attorney and Rhodes scholar. Booker ran for mayor again this May, beating James’ handpicked successor and taking over 70 percent of the vote...
What do Chairman of Microsoft Corporation William H. Gates III ’77, world-class tennis player James R. Blake ’01, and Booker Prize winning author Margaret E. Atwood MA ’62 have in common, besides a killer forehand? All three luminaries grace “The Harvard 100” list of the most influential alumni, the feature story of the first issue of 02138, an independent magazine for Harvard alumni that is attempting to become the publication of choice for its elite and accomplished community. The official press release gushes that...
...incidents of Roosevelt's presidency represent his disappointing legacy on race. The first was his invitation to black educator Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House-an act of political courage at the time. Washington, a former slave and the founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, was, in Roosevelt's view, "the most useful, as well as the most distinguished, member of his race in the world." On the first day of his presidency, Roosevelt sent a note to Washington inviting him to the White House to discuss suitable candidates for patronage appointments in the South...