(no subject)
Sep. 9th, 2008 06:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khiemtranFrom the Guardian:
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Booker prize and the impending announcement of the 2008 shortlist, we asked a judge from every year to tell us the inside story of how the winner was chosen.
A useful reminder of the vagaries and arbitrariness of panel-judged awards. Would careers have been changed if one judge had spoken up louder or another had backed down earlier? Would the Life of Pi have won if one judge had not been given a copy on tour and enthused about it to her other judges? Would Amber Spyglass have made the shortlist if it hadn't won the Whitbread?
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Booker prize and the impending announcement of the 2008 shortlist, we asked a judge from every year to tell us the inside story of how the winner was chosen.
A useful reminder of the vagaries and arbitrariness of panel-judged awards. Would careers have been changed if one judge had spoken up louder or another had backed down earlier? Would the Life of Pi have won if one judge had not been given a copy on tour and enthused about it to her other judges? Would Amber Spyglass have made the shortlist if it hadn't won the Whitbread?
