Not the Booker Prize returns, offers authors a mug
Now in its sixth year, the Not the Booker Prize is back. Sponsored by The Guardian, the award––billed as “the world’s most democratic”––is largely decided by readers. Like its namesake,… Read more »
Indie publishing news roundup
The short list for the Dylan Thomas Prize was released yesterday, and all books selected this year were put out by independent presses in the UK. The prize of £30,000… Read more »
Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria home to be demolished
“To a certain extent, being a colonial, you have these wild romantic dreams about ‘Home,'” Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) admitted in an interview with The Paris Review in 1959. But now… 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 »
For weeks, we’ve been watching The Not the Booker Prize unfold at The Guardian’s books website, cheering for Lars Iyer’s Spurious to take home the coveted first place prize: a… Read more »