Apr 28 2008
Booker Prize Controversies
What do you do when you’re up for air between continuous hours of solid work? Why, you go to the Man Booker Prize for Fiction site and you surf up a storm, of course. In this case, it’s finding out that the Booker Prize has had an interesting and stormy history. Go to Hitting the Headlines, and check out the list of controversies to hit the Prize since it’s conception.
One of my favourite controversy (is there such a thing?) happened in 1993:
Anthony Cheetham, publisher of Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy, called the judges ‘a bunch of wankers’ for not shortlisting the book.
Well.
