Booker and Nobel prizes are not perfect stories
The 2019 awarding of these top literary honours was fraught with rumour and wrangling
24 October 2019 - 05:10
The recent announcement of the winners of two of the world’s most prestigious and valuable literary prizes has sparked plenty of controversy and debate.
First, there was the announcement of the winners of this and 2018’s literature’s holy grail — the Nobel prize. After 2018’s shocking and deeply embarrassing sexual harassment scandal that rocked and tore apart the Swedish academy responsible for awarding the prize, the failure to award a prize then was redressed by the announcement of two winners in 2019...
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