Anne Enright: Man Booker Prize Winner
The Irish writer Anne Enright has just been awarded the Man Booker Prize for her novel . This was the highlight novel of the last series of our Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio Ulster Book Programme. I am delighted for Anne Enright -- and I hope this prize will bring her work the attention it rightly deserves. I am certain the Booker judges wrestled for days over thie choice, with individual judges switching to-and-fro as others made counter-arguments. My pick would have been Animal's People, but I feel no disappointment at all that the judges have chosen such a wonderful novel as their winner.
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Political correctness is never objectives. These days so-called prizes are more about the judges making personal political statements than about merit. For example to spite Bush you give the Nobel to Gore for faulty film-making.
How come the 'Man' Booker prize was won by a woman?? (!)