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- When Penelope Lively won the Booker Prize in 1987, it was for a novel - Moon Tiger - that featured an ambitious, uncompromising heroine, as easily located in the 21st century as in her own Second World War context.
Mar 16, 2023 · When Penelope Lively won the Booker Prize in 1987, it was for a novel - Moon Tiger - that featured an ambitious, uncompromising heroine, as easily located in the 21st century as in her own Second World War context.
Penelope Lively won the Booker Prize in 1987 and has also been shortlisted twice - in 1977 and 1984. She was born in Cairo and is the author of many prize-winning novels and short story collections for both adults and children.
Dec 12, 2022 · It can’t have come as a huge surprise when Penelope Lively won the Booker Prize in 1987 for her seventh novel, Moon Tiger, not least because she’d been shortlisted for the award twice already - for her debut novel for adults, The Road to Lichfield (1977) and According to Mark (1984).
Lively was shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She won the 1987 Booker Prize for her novel Moon Tiger .
Mar 16, 2023 · In this exclusive video interview, Penelope Lively talks about winning the Booker for Moon Tiger, how the book’s heroine was decades ahead of her time, growing up in Egypt - and the challenges ...
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Sep 26, 2011 · Critics originally described it as a "housewife's choice" when it won the Booker Prize in 1987, but the feisty female protagonist in Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger is a "little wife" to no one.
Penelope Lively, British writer of well-plotted novels and short stories that stress the significance of memory and historical continuity. She won the Booker Prize for Moon Tiger. Other notable novels included The Road to Lichfield and Treasures of Time.
