Anne Enright: Man Booker Prize Winner
The Irish writer Anne Enright has just been awarded the Man Booker Prize for her novel The Gathering. This was the highlight novel of the last series of our BBC Radio Ulster Book Programme. I am delighted for Anne Enright -- and I hope this prize will bring her work the attention it rightly deserves. I am certain the Booker judges wrestled for days over thie choice, with individual judges switching to-and-fro as others made counter-arguments. My pick would have been Animal's People, but I feel no disappointment at all that the judges have chosen such a wonderful novel as their winner.
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Political correctness is never objectives. These days so-called prizes are more about the judges making personal political statements than about merit. For example to spite Bush you give the Nobel to Gore for faulty film-making.
How come the 'Man' Booker prize was won by a woman?? (!)