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Thamus discovered 23 months ago- Lettre Ulysses prize: Linda Grant wins Ten days ago I posted a note here that my old friend Linda Grant, the English novelist who has already won the prestigious Orange Prize for her novel When I lived in Modern Times, was a finalist for the German literary prize, the Lettre Ulysse for reportage, for her new book The People on the Street - about the wacky characters who live in Israel as citizens and residents. As my supreme confidence in my friend suggested - Linda indeed won the prize (and its $50,000 - our next bottle of chilled dry white is on you, baby). Next stop - the Booker. Watch this space. Linda visted Tel Aviv in 2003, intending to write a novel. From the book's blurb: "Instead her visit produced a work of another kind - observations from a troubled land of the 'people on the street', and the discovery of an Israel of many aliases." The Lettre Ulysses winner was announced in Berlin on Saturday (30 Sep.) Here was the short list for this year's prize: * Linda Grant (Britain): The People on the Street: A Writer's View of Israel (Virago, 2006) * Karl-Markus Gauss (Austria): The Dog Eaters of Svinia (Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 2004) * Juanita León (Colombia): Country of Bullets: War Diaries (Aguilar, 2005) * Li Datong (China): The Story of 'Freezing Point' (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2006) * Erik Orsenna (France): Journey to the Lands of Cotton: A Brief Manual of Globalisation (Fayard, 2006) * Manjushree Thapa (Nepal): Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy (Penguin Viking India, 2005) * Zhou Qing (China): What Kind of God: A Survey of the Current Safety of China's Food (Reportage Literature, 2004)
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