1. If the Booker Prize began in 1969, how many winners have there been to date?
2. Looking up the Booker Prize website, make a list of all the Irish authors who have been nominated since 1969. Where possible, mention the name of the novel that they were nominated for and the year of nomination.
3. Now pair up, compare your lists and combine them. When you are ready, compare your answers with the rest of the class and see who got the most correct.
The winner is …
You get 1 point for every Irish Booker nominated/winning novel that you find. You will get an extra mark if you can give the name of the novel that they were nominated for. You will get one more point if you know the correct year of the author’s nomination. You should know that some authors have been nominated more than once …
PS Your teacher will find all these answers in their Resource Book!
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The following two passages are taken from a novel called We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by an American author, Karen Joy Fowler (pictured). It was one of the six novels nominated for the Booker Prize in 2014.
This novel is about the very complex relationships within a family: between brothers and sisters, sisters and sisters, parents and children.
In this extract from Part II, Chapter 2, the narrator, Rosemary, writes about her early childhood, and in particular about her sister, Fern, and her brother, Lowell. She also had an imaginary friend called Mary.
