The Booker Prizes | The Booker at the Oscars: Schindler's Ark vs Schindler's List | The Booker Prize Podcast, Episode 32 @TheBookerPrizes | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 16 minutes ago.
It's Oscars season so we're off to the movies. Welcome to the first in a new mini-series where we explore Booker Prize novels whose silver screen adaptations went on to experience Oscar glory. We're starting with Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize 1982 winner, which also happens to be the first Booker-winning novel to become a film that won a Best Picture Oscar. Listen in as we dive into the book and its film counterpart.
In this episode Jo and James:
- Share a brief biography of Thomas Keneally
- Revisit the origin story of Schindler's Ark
- Consider whether “non-fiction novels” are really novels
- Summarise the plot of the book, and discuss their thoughts on it
- Explore the character of Oskar Schindler
- Delve into Steven Spielberg's adaptation, Schindler's List, and the differences between book and film
Reading list:
- Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/schindlers-ark
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/the-remains-of-the-day
- Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/empire-of-the-sun
- Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/hotel-du-lac
- Erasure by Percival Everett: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/the-trees
- The Trees by Percival Everett
- The Place at Whitton by Thomas Keneally
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/the-chant-of-jimmie-blacksmith
- Gossip from the Forest by Thomas Keneally: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/gossip-from-the-forest
- Confederates by Thomas Keneally: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/confederates
- An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/an-ice-cream-war
- The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
A full transcript of the episode is available at our website: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-booker-prize-podcast-episode-32-title-schindlers-ark-vs-schindlers-list
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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
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It's Oscars season so we're off to the movies. Welcome to the first in a new mini-series where we explore Booker Prize novels whose silver screen adaptations went on to experience Oscar glory. We're starting with Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize 1982 winner, which also happens to be the first Booker-winning novel to become a film that won a Best Picture Oscar. Listen in as we dive into the book and its film counterpart.
In this episode Jo and James:
- Share a brief biography of Thomas Keneally
- Revisit the origin story of Schindler's Ark
- Consider whether “non-fiction novels” are really novels
- Summarise the plot of the book, and discuss their thoughts on it
- Explore the character of Oskar Schindler
- Delve into Steven Spielberg's adaptation, Schindler's List, and the differences between book and film
Reading list:
- Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/schindlers-ark
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/the-remains-of-the-day
- Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/empire-of-the-sun
- Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/hotel-du-lac
- Erasure by Percival Everett: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/the-trees
- The Trees by Percival Everett
- The Place at Whitton by Thomas Keneally
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/the-chant-of-jimmie-blacksmith
- Gossip from the Forest by Thomas Keneally: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/gossip-from-the-forest
- Confederates by Thomas Keneally: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/confederates
- An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/an-ice-cream-war
- The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
A full transcript of the episode is available at our website: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-booker-prize-podcast-episode-32-title-schindlers-ark-vs-schindlers-list
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The Booker Prizes on TikTok: tiktok.com/@thebookerprizes
The Booker Prizes on Twitter: twitter.com/TheBookerPrizes
The Booker Prizes on Facebook: facebook.com/TheBookerPrizes
The Booker Prizes on Instagram: instagram.com/thebookerprizes
The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
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