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Apr 16

Pulitzer Prize Winners announced – Tom Reiss and Adam Johnson – photos from Author Pictures at Lebrecht

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Pulitzer Prize Winners announced 15 April 2013

American writer Tom Reiss was awarded the prize for Biography for his book The Black Count on the life of Generale Alexandre Dumas, French-Caribbean military hero and father of novelist Alexandre Dumas père.
Adam Johnson was awarded the prize for Fiction for his North Korean-set novel The Orphan Master’s Son.

Photographs by Miriam Berkley (from National Book Critics Circles Readings and Awards, February 2013)

Tom Reiss at the National Book Critics Circle Readings
Tom Reiss at the National Book Critics Circle Readings. 27 February 2013, New York City, US.
© Miriam Berkley/Lebrecht Music & Arts

Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson at National Book Critics Circle Awards in New York, 28 February 2013.
© Miriam Berkley/Lebrecht Music & Arts

Adam Johnson with his son and literary agent, 2013
Adam Johnson at National Book Critics Circle Awards in New York, 28 February 2013 with his son and agent.

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Apr 04

Obituary Pictures of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German born writer from Cologne, died on 3 April 2013. She won the Booker award for her novel ‘Heat and Dust’. She collaborated with James Ivory and Ismail Merchant writing the screenplays for twenty films that they produced. She won her first Oscar for the film ‘Mr and Mrs Bridge’ in 1990 and her second for ‘Howard’s End’ in 1992. Ismail Merchant once commented: “It is a strange marriage we have at Merchant Ivory… I am an Indian Muslim, Ruth is a German Jew, and Jim is a Protestant American. Someone once described us as a three-headed god. Maybe they should have called us a three-headed monster!”

Photographer by Eamonn McCabe

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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Dec 11

Charles Rosen video in Paris

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A short video of Charles Rosen, taken in Paris in March 2005 at the Ecole Normal Superieure by the photographer Marion Kalter (on her phone, it was all she had to hand), in which the great musical analyst gives a three-minute discourse on the making of Pierre Boulez.

He’s speaking fluent French, and you don’t need to understand that language in order to grasp the effortless authority that Charles exerted over an audience, any audience, whether as pianist, speaker or writer.


© Eamonn McCabe/Lebrecht Music & Arts

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Dec 10

Charles Rosen obituary photos from Lebrecht Music & Arts

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Charles Rosen, American pianist, 5 May 1927 – 10 December 2012. Obituary photos are now available at www.lebrecht.co.uk


© D. Hunstein/Sony/Lebrecht


© Eamonn McCabe/Lebrecht Music & Arts


© D. Hunstein/Sony/Lebrecht


© Nigel Luckhurst/Lebrecht Music & Arts

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Nov 15

American National Book Awards 2012

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Louise Erdrich’s book ‘The Roundhouse’, the story of a woman who is attacked on a North Dakota reservation has beaten novels by Junot Diaz and Dave Eggers to win America’s prestigious National Book award. The surprised Erdrich, who is part Ojibwe, spoke in her tribal tongue and then switched to English as she dedicated her fiction award to “the grace and endurance of native people.”

The non-fiction prize was won by Katherine Boo for her investigation into life in a Mumbai slum, ‘Behind the Beautiful Forevers’ .

The National Book award for poetry went to David Ferry for ‘Bewilderment’.

Awards were made on 14 November 2012.

click here for more photographs of judges, and competitors for this prestigious award.

Photographs by Miriam Berkley.


David Ferry and poetry judge Tracy K. Smith


David Ferry at The National Book Awards Dinner


David Ferry at The National Book Awards Dinner

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