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White, Hazzard in running for ‘Lost’ Man Booker Prize
Novels by Australian authors Patrick White and Shirley Hazzard are among those in the running for a new Man Booker Prize.
The Lost Man Booker Prize, announced on 1 February, is a one-off prize to honour books published in 1970 that missed out on the opportunity to win the prize due to a change in the eligibility rules.
‘In 1971, just two years after it began, the Booker Prize ceased to be awarded retrospectively and became, as it is today, a prize for the best novel in the year of publication,’ said a Man Booker statement. ‘At the same time, the date on which the award was given moved from April to November. As a result of these changes, there was a whole year’s gap when a wealth of fiction, published in 1970, fell through the net. These books were simply never considered for the prize.’
The 22 books longlisted for the ‘Lost’ award would have been eligible if the rules had not changed, and are still generally available.
The longlisted titles are:
* The Hand Reared Boy (Brian Aldiss, Souvenir Press)
* A Little Of What You Fancy? (H E Bates, Penguin)
* The Birds On The Trees (Nina Bawden, Virago)
* A Place In England (Melvyn Bragg, Sceptre)
* Down All The Days (Christy Brown, Vintage)
* Bomber (Len Deighton, HarperCollins)
* Troubles (J G Farrell, Phoenix)
* The Circle (Elaine Feinstein, Faber)
* The Bay Of Noon (Shirley Hazzard, Virago)
* A Clubbable Woman (Reginald Hill, HarperCollins)
* I’m The King Of The Castle (Susan Hill)
* A Domestic Animal (Francis King, Faber)
* The Fire Dwellers (Margaret Laurence, Little, Brown)
* Out Of The Shelter (David Lodge, Penguin)
* A Fairly Honourable Defeat (Iris Murdoch, Vintage)
* Fireflies (Shiva Naipaul, Penguin)
* Master and Commander (Patrick O’Brian, HarperCollins)
* Head To Toe (Joe Orton, Methuen)
* Fire From Heaven (Mary Renault, Arrow)
* A Guilty Thing Surprised (Ruth Rendell, Arrow)
* The Driver’s Seat (Muriel Spark, Penguin)
* The Vivisector (Patrick White, Vintage).
White, who asked that his novel The Twyborn Affair (Vintage) be removed from the Booker shortlist in 1979 so that younger authors could be in the running, gave away the proceeds of his 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature and refused a Miles Franklin award. The author died in 1990.
Hazzard’s novel The Great Fire (Virago) won the 2004 Miles Franklin award.
The shortlist for the Lost Man Booker Prize will be announced in March and readers will be able to vote for the overall winner, to be announced in May.
Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2010/02/14717/
This article from Thorpe Bowker’s Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.
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