Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Man Booker Prize 2015: One Judge On The Impossible Task Of Choosing A Winner

Book2Book Tuesday 13 Oct 2015

In some ways, we'd have been happy to leave it at the longlist. As one of my fellow judges commented in the Man Booker shortlist meeting, this was the point at which the gameshow aspects of a book prize start to take over: we took a list of 13 first-rate novels and halved it for no other reason than that's the way the game works. Tonight, we single out but one.


Sam Leith in The Guardian

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