By Vanessascribbler on October 21, 2008
Aravind Adiga for “The White Tiger.” (I am so late with this news). He’s the fourth debut novelist to win the prize and the fifth Indian; the other four are VS Naipul, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai.
I admit, I’m envious.
Is it probably because -
Indians are have close ties with the Brits that [...]
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By Vanessascribbler on October 9, 2008
A French writer, Jean-Marie Gustave L Clézio, was given the prize. See NYT. One important standard of the academy seems to be clear: obvious writing skills aside, they want someone who they think writes about universal themes, a factor that they’ve said the Americans fall short of. Hmmmm…different strokes for different folks. Actually, I think [...]
Posted in Books | Tagged Booker Prize, literature, Man Asian, Nobel
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