Huge International News for Lisa Moore’s February: It Makes The Prestigious Man Booker Prize “Booker’s Dozen” Longlist!
It has a pretty simple slogan: The Man Booker Prize promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year.
A fact about Lisa Moore: I am not sure if there is another writer who can touch her elegant, evocative sentence-level writing.
So it all lines up, right?
Today in London, the Booker Prize Foundation released its annual “The Booker Dozen” longlist. Newfoundland’s Lisa Moore is on it. Interestingly, the winner is chosen by an international judging panel chosen by the advisory committee of the Man Booker Prize: they meet and chat a few times … in different parts of the world. Consideration is given to an author’s overall contribution to fiction “on the world stage. In seeking out literary excellence, the judges consider a writer’s body of work rather than a single novel.”
The Man Booker Prize is hands down one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards, and its cash prize weighs in at £50 000. It also sells books by the barrel, as much or more than most other literary awards. Look what it did for its 2009 winner, Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. That book was pretty well falling out of the sky last year, wasn’t it?
Date: July 27, 2010
