Imperial World: The Politics of Book Prizes with Paula Morris

This year the Man Booker Prize – the self-styled “most important literary award in the English-speaking world” – is open to American authors (published in the UK) for the first time. British authors are outraged, warning of the prospect of fewer nominations for Commonwealth novels. 
But they forget that, notwithstanding Eleanor Catton’s success last year, the majority of novels from Commonwealth countries are already ineligible because they are not published in the UK. Should the tastes of the UK market still dictate what’s important in the international literary world? 

Thursday 15 May 2014

5:00PM — 6:00PM

Old Choral Hall, University of Auckland
Free entry.

http://writersfestival.co.nz/events/imperial-world-the-politics-of-book-prizes/

Paula Morris photo above by Mike Brooke

Footnote:

I believe that Paula's address is filled with controversial pronouncements. Don't miss it !.