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Description: The Booker Prize is awarded for the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, ... more

The Booker Prize in general ... Ireland or South Africa, and has been called the ultimate accolade for writers.

Newest Review: ... At the announcement of the short-list, the chair (sic) of the judges, Lisa Jardine, said: "We arrived at a wonderfully diverse shortlist with enormous enjoyment. The strong showing of Commonwealth writers shows the real importance of the Man Booker Prize's criteria for entr y" Is that her way of ... more

... saying: "This is a Commonwealth Prize for Commonwealth people. We'll have no troublesome Yanks here" - or is that just wishful thinking on my part? Cynical souls like myself have noticed that short-lists can be somewhat formulaic. Judges...more

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The Booker Prize in general: Piece of Pi (2203 words)
by - written on 19/08/01 (Very useful, 650 readings)
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Canadian Yann Martel won the £50,000 MAN Booker Prize 2002 for 'Life of Pi' - his surreal tale of a young boy who, following a shipwreck, is left drifting in the Pacific in a lifeboat along with various animals from his family's zoo, including a tiger called Richard Parker! The judges were split 4-1 in his favour (I suspect some joker preferred Sarah Waters' Fingersmith - awarding the Booker Prize to that would have been like giving an haute cuisine award to a bowl of Häagen-Dazs ice-cream.) Even before the long-list was announced, this was a book I wanted to read, and, with the possible exception of Carol Shields' Unless (which ... Read the complete review

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