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Film Adaptation Of Booker Prize-Winning Novel ‘Flesh’ Is In The Works

Film Adaptation Of Booker Prize-Winning Novel ‘Flesh’ Is In The Works

EXCLUSIVE: David Szalay’s Booker Prize-winning novel Flesh is set to be made into a movie by Conclave producer House Productions. BBC Film and Len Blavatnik’s Access are also on board the buzzy project. “When something moves from one form to another it is transformed in profound ways, so I’m sure it will be different, but it will be fascinating to …

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‘I’m never surprised when I read about a woman murdering a man’: Helen Garner on her Baillie Gifford prize-winning diaries | Books

‘I’m never surprised when I read about a woman murdering a man’: Helen Garner on her Baillie Gifford prize-winning diaries | Books

When Helen Garner was announced as the winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction in London on Tuesday night, the 82-year-old Australian author was 16,000km away in Melbourne, watching the ceremony on a live stream at home on what was for her Wednesday morning. When the big moment came, she heard “the winner is …” – and then the …

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