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Cut and pasted from the Indy:
Why do book prizes ignore the best reads?
It's the fault of male academics on the judging panels, says author Louise Doughty, one of tonight's Booker judges. They pick the literary and the obscure to impress their colleagues
By Arifa Akbar, arts correspodent
And it's not even the Grauniad
Why do book prizes ignore the best reads?
It's the fault of male academics on the judging panels, says author Louise Doughty, one of tonight's Booker judges. They pick the literary and the obscure to impress their colleagues
By Arifa Akbar, arts correspodent
And it's not even the Grauniad
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I'd like to think Sebastian Faulks could win but the last novel of his I read (oh allright, the only novel of his I've read) was a character's life in 26 alphabetical chapters and out of chronological order which is hardly lowest-common-denominator accessibility stuff even if not exactly BS Johnson.
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