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January 03, 2006
Same Old Prank- Same Old Result
Every year a-once-upon-a-time prize winning book is submitted to agents and editors and rejected. This time round it's V S Naipal's In a Free State and Stanley Middleton's Holiday.
In a Free State, a series of stories about immigrants in London, Washington and Africa, won the Booker prize in 1971. Middleton's Holiday, a family saga, won in 1974. Tastes change over the years of course, but surely books are not fashion statements (not suitable for our list, you see nooo one wants to read about Africa this year) Shouldn't good writing, good enough to win a prestigious prize at any rate, be recognized and clamored over by agents and editors both? These are, after all, the individuals who decide what will be available on the shelves for the rest of us to read. So much for the enduring nurture of prizes too.
Posted by Soniah Kamal at January 3, 2006 07:33 AM
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