Matt Frei
Plump pigs and a private zoo: a very revolutionary day out
President Yanukovych flees Kiev allowing protesters to take over and leaving his presidential compound – complete with private zoo – open to the people.
Search results for ‘Orange Prize’
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Madeline Miller wins 2012 Orange Prize
The Orange Prize 2012 is awarded to Madeline Miller for her first novel, Song of Achilles. Watch an exclusive video of the author reading from her book.
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Orange prize shortlist: the Channel 4 News verdict
Ahead of the announcement of this year’s Orange prize winner, the Channel 4 News team gives its verdict on the wide-ranging and eminent shortlist.
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Has the Orange prize shaken off its sexism tag?
As this year’s Orange prize shortlist is announced, Channel 4 News looks at how the prize has moved from being a “women’s” award bound up in discussions of gender, to a major commercial player.
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Tea Obreht wins Orange Prize for Fiction 2011
Téa Obreht becomes the youngest winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 after the 25-year-old’s Serbian/American author’s debut novel The Tiger’s Wife scooped the top award for women writers.
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Orange Prize for Fiction 2011: the contenders
Orange Prize co-founder Kate Mosse tells Channel 4 News the award “still matters” in a publishing world dominated by men, as the six nominees read extracts from their books.
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AM Homes wins Women’s Prize for Fiction
The American author AM Homes beats Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith to the Women’s Prize for Fiction for her sixth novel, May We Be Forgiven.
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Women’s Prize for Fiction: the Channel 4 News verdict
From missing mothers to murder, climate change to the Tudors: this year’s shortlist for what was the Orange Prize for fiction has been described as “staggeringly strong”. Channel 4 News takes a look.
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Linda Grant and the ‘toxic’ legacy of the babyboomers
The Orange Prize-winning novelist, Linda Grant, talks to Samira Ahmed about her new novel on the often “toxic” legacy of the babyboomer generation.
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Zombies storm app download charts
They’re the living dead and they’re out to get us. Channel 4 News discovers a British success story that taps into our fears to try and help us get fit.
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Public libraries – the face of the future
Birmingham’s ambitious new public library is due to open next year – providing another architectural landmark in the very heart of the city, and a cultural treasure trove for generations to come.
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Why big business and the NSA sift through your data patterns
“Pattern-of-life” analysis has emerged as a new buzz term in revelations about the National Security Agency. But what is it? And how does it connect shopping with spying?
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Russell Brand in surprise visit to loyalist protest camp
Russell Brand has visited a unionist protest camp in Belfast that has been staging daily demonstrations since an Orange parade ended in days of rioting this summer.
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Estate of mind: politics, design and social housing
As a notorious, now regenerated, council estate gets shortlisted for a coveted architectural award – Channel 4 News wonders if this is a sign of social housing en vogue, or a system that is broken.
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Rothko attack was act of ‘yellowism’, says artist
The man who defaced Mark Rothko’s Black on Maroon painting says he was acting on behalf of the yellowism movement. But how often is art attacked, and can it be restored? Chanel 4 News investigates.
