Re: RARA-AVIS: Vernon God Little

From: David Moran ( davidm@shakespeare-nyc.com)
Date: 31 Jan 2004


While it's theoretically open to Americans, so far as I can recall, no America has ever been awarded the Man Booker prize (nee Booker Prize).

David Moran

cs_will@btopenworld.com wrote:

> Todd Mason wrote:
> > The Man Booker is roughly analogous in the UK to the National Book Award
> in
> > the US.
>
> The Booker is not a national award. It is open to the Commonwealth and just about any English-speaking nation besides the USA (not sure why that is). That's why you have Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, and JM Coetzee winning. DBC Pierre is an Australian national I believe, who grew up a bit in Mexico and now lives in Ireland. There's a whole lot about his life story in the UK broadsheets archives.
>
> Charlie Williams.
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