Eleanor Catton vs. New Zealand
Should an acclaimed, award-winning novelist be free to speak out against her home country’s neoliberal politicians without being told by a radio show host to “stick [her comments] where the… Read more »
Man Booker Prize thinks that pub date is a problem
The Man Booker Prize committee announced new rules yesterday. Nothing quite so drastic as opening the prize up to any novel published in English by a UK publisher, but the… Read more »
Who’s behind the books of the world’s top-grossing films? The answer won’t surprise you.
Lisa Campbell of The Bookseller reported yesterday that “UK books power world’s top-grossing films.” In it, she reveals that 40% of the highest-grossing films since 2001 were adaptions of novels… Read more »
Eleanor Catton wins Man Booker Prize
Eleanor Catton has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries. At 28, the Canadian-born, New Zealand-bred, Iowa-educated Catton is the youngest author to ever win the award. A 848… Read more »
The long wait for news from Britain is over: the Man Booker Longlist is here!
The wait is finally over. After month upon month of speculation, after even mainstream press had worked themselves into a lather and British tabloid editors had long since lost their… Read more »
The end of the Man Asian
The worth of the Asian Literary Prize is evident enough — exposure to contemporary Asian fiction is woefully limited in the English-speaking world… Read more »
“The Welsh publishing industry is nothing more than a parasitical, elitist carbuncle on the hide of a struggling Welsh economy”
No book prize longlist may stand without a backlash, and this year’s Man Booker is no exception. Alan Bissett writes in The Guardian that the list, and the prize’s past… Read more »
A “bum-squeakingly close” literary contest
Yesterday, The Not-the-Booker Prize, the rowdy, populist rival to the Man Booker Prize, came down to what prize moderator Sam Jordison described as a “bum-squeakingly close” (translation for American readers:… Read more »