The Whitbread category awards have been annnounced. Always an interesting bunch - I often find they choose better than the Booker, so it is particularly noteworthy that Tash Aw's Booker-longlisted 'Harmony Silk Factory' picked up best first novel and Ali Smith's shortlisted 'The Accidental' was awarded best novel. Better than 'The Sea'? I couldn't possibly comment. The other winners were Hilary Spurling's 'Matisse the Master' getting a well-deserved nod for best biography, 'The New Policeman' by Kate Thompson winning for children's, and 'Cold Calls' by Christopher Logue for poetry. Let's see who walks off with Book of the Year at the end of the month - I'm tentatively sticking my neck out for Spurling, but the last time I predicted a book prize correctly was Vernon God Little's Booker win, and that's going back a while. (A prediction I might have mentioned to DBC Pierre when I met him at a book signing shortly afterwards. Unfortunately, and for reasons far too bizarre to explain, what I actually ended up saying was "There are 13 varieties of banana in Uganda"; he was not impressed and I ran out of the building. True story.)
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Whitbread winners
by cpmarie
@ Wednesday, Jan. 04, 2006 - 02:21:00 pm
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...the last time I predicted a book prize correctly was Vernon God Little's Booker win, and that's going back a while. (A prediction I might have mentioned to DBC Pierre when I met him at a book signing shortly afterwards. Unfortunately, and for reasons far too bizarre to explain, what I actually ended up saying was "There are 13 varieties of banana in Uganda"; he was not impressed and I ran out of the building. True story.)
the full context to that story is just begging to be explained... "bananas"???
 | cpmarie [Member] http://www.crockattpowell.com 2006-01-04 @ 19:20 |
You are asking me to go into details here about the single most humiliating moment of my life. I'm just not sure I can do it.
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