The Man Booker Prize has released its longlist for 2008:
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
- The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
- From A to X by John Berger
- The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
- Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
- The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
- A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
- The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
- Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
- The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
- Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
- A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
No Canadians this year. And word has it that Rushdie has ordered vanity plates that read “MN BKR MN.”
As to Rushdie, living proof that:
Honours dishonour. Titles degrade. — Gustave Flaubert
[...] For the full longlist, you can read it here [...]
Isn’t interesting that publishers don’t give a damn about having their authors covers copy someone else’s.
Apparently this happens a lot.
Surely Andrew Taylor’s editor could have mad a little more effort over finding another jacket that did not look exactly like Vices of My Blood by Maureen Jennings.
Link here to see what I mean
http://idenford.blogspot.com/2008/07/im-not-happy-camper-about-this-today.html
oops wrong location to post this, oh well.
I hate awards and think them completely unecessary. It gives bored people something to do.