LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ASIAN LITERATURE
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Bashō Matsuo
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Du Fu
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Cao
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Sōgi Iio
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Detailed explanation-1: -Your title, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, is borrowed from the haiku poet Matsuo Basho.
Detailed explanation-2: -Winner. On 14 October, chair judge A. C. Grayling announced that Australian author Richard Flanagan had won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his book The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Detailed explanation-3: -About the Author: Australian author Richard Flanagan was born in 1961 and has won numerous literary prizes for his first three novels.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1993, the “Booker of Bookers” prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight’s Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight’s Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize’s fortieth anniversary, for “The Best of the Booker".
Detailed explanation-5: -Midnight’s Children also won the Booker of Bookers (1993) and the Best of the Booker (2008), special prizes that were voted on by the public in honour of the prize’s 25th and 40th anniversaries, respectively.