2007 Man Booker Prize Winner
I’m a huge Booker Prize fan, so I thought I’d reprint this post from Amazon.com’s Book Blog.
The bookies, and the bettors, were once again confounded, as the judges for the 2007 Man Booker Prize selected neither Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach, the initial bookies’ favorite, nor Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip, which the betting drove to the top odds by the time of today’s award announcement. Instead, they chose Irish writer Anne Enright’s The Gathering, which had been largely ignored by both bettors and commentators alike. Our own Anne (Bartholomew), however, just read
The Gathering and had told us to watch out–it’s a good one. She’ll chime in later on the blog with her own take.
In further Booker notes: two of the six nominees did not have US publishers when the shortlist was announced, but have since been signed. Nicola Barker’s Darkmans, gigantic and audacious (by all reports), will be published by HarperPerennial in November, while Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, based on the 1984 Bhopal disaster, will come out in spring 2008 from Simon & Schuster