Jan 28 2019
The Booker prize is searching for a new sponsor after the hedge fund company Man Group announced it was ending its 18-year relationship with Britain’s most prestigious literary award.
The Booker Prize Foundation said its trustees were already in discussion with a new sponsor, "and are confident that new funding will be in place for 2020". It added: "In the meantime the two prizes will run as usual this year."
Man Group has sponsored the Booker prize since 2002 and the Man Booker international prize since its inception in 2005.
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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