Candidates for the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
The Candidates for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature are always an interesting collection and I was glad to note that I have four of them on my site: César…
The Candidates for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature are always an interesting collection and I was glad to note that I have four of them on my site: César…
The latest addition to my website is A. M. Homes' May We Be Forgiven, the winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. Most people, including me, thought that Bring…
Yesterday's news in the literary prize world, at least in the English-speaking world, was about the Women's Fiction Prize , won not by Hilary Mantel but by A M Homes.…
The shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction was announced and nearly got lost in the shuffle, as it was announced the day after Granta’s Best Young British Novelists list.…
I have been following the rumblings around the Man Booker International Prize nominations and thought that I would add my ten cents' worth. Michael Orthofer and Chad Post have raised…
This article by Shalom Auslander has to be the funniest take on book prizes I have seen. His story - Harley was our dog. She is dead now. I want…
For the first (and probably last) time ever, I have managed to read all the books on Man Booker shortlist and, amazingly, read them before the winner is announced. I…
No, I am not going to talk about the Nobel Prize, except that I am. I was determined not to but I am essentially weak-willed. Michael Orthofer at Literary Saloon…
Paul Bailey had an interesting comment in The Guardian on literary prizes. I have commented on lit prizes before, e.g. here, and make no bones about the fact that I…
When I set up this blog, I vowed that I would only touch peripherally on the literary prize bandwagon/farce and here I am writing my fourth post and my fourth…