Alison Pick Picked for the BOOKER Prize!

The mandate of this international, very prestigious award is clear: The Man Booker Prize promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year.

The winner is chosen by an international judging panel, who are 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.”

It is high honour, and her nomination is highly deserved. It means you’re the real deal. There were only three Canadian writers on this year’s longlist of 13. This 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.

Read Salty Ink’s full review of Far to Go Right Here.

Or Salty Ink’s interview with her right here: http://saltyink.com/2010/12/13/shedding-some-ink-on-alison-pick/

London released the annual “Booker dozen” longlist of titles today, and here they are in full:

• Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape/Random House)
• Sebastian Barry, On Canaan’s Side (Faber)
• Carol Birch, Jamrach’s Menagerie (Canongate Books/HarperCollins)
• Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers (Granta/House of Anansi)
• Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues (Serpent’s Tail/Thomas Allen)
• Yvvette Edwards, A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld)
• Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child (Picador/Pan Macmillan)
• Stephen Kelman, Pigeon English (Bloomsbury/House of Anansi)
• Patrick McGuinness, The Last Hundred Days (Seren Books)
• A.D. Miller, Snowdrops (Atlantic)
• Alison Pick, Far to Go (Headline Review/House of Anansi)
• Jane Rogers, The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press)
• D.J. Taylor, Derby Day (Chatto & Windus/Random House)

Only Pick and McGuiness are also published poets, just saying.

Fun fact of the day: Alan Hollinghurst has already won the prize. He took it in 2004, with The Line of Beauty.

Also, while it is no surprise, House of Anansi Press have officially landed a book on this list two years in a row! All Three Canadian titles, were published in Canada by Anansi.

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