/lit/ - Literature

>>13994729
Just the day Bloom dies, gotta love the irony

>>13994736
He didn’t hate Atwood.

>>13994766
Well, it turns out I'm the retard. How surprising

>>13994784
Admitting your mistake makes you better than 99% of this board fren.

>>13994766
he wouldn't have cared for the booker prize or prizes in general.

>>13994729
It's so obvious that Evaristo was the real intended winner, not because of writing quality (her book may be good or bad, it doesn't matter when it comes to this prize) but because they wanted the kudos for awarding the Booker to a black woman for the first time.

But the judges' intense fangirling for Handmaid's Tale just couldn't let them do it, nope, instead they had to mess it up by splitting the prize with Atwood's drecky YA sequel.

>>13994729
who?
who?
what prize?

>>13994729
Margaret Atwood deserves another one, I've never read Bernardine Evaristo.

The Booker (and most other awards) is a tool publishers use to sell books, the market for books is now mostly female, so they want books they can sell to women to win. That and rampant political correctness is why you won't see a white man winning it any time soon.

>>13995257
Truth

>>13994729
>Bernardine Evaristo
that woman is hideous

>>13996376
Lincoln in the Bardo won it two years ago, but I can't see anything like that happening again for a while. This year's prize was transparently driven by identity politics.

>>13994729
That’s sideshow bob

extrovert supremacy strikes again

>>13994729
Is Evaristo any good? Haven't red her

>>13996061
>But the judges' intense fangirling for Handmaid's Tale just couldn't let them do it, nope, instead they had to mess it up by splitting the prize with Atwood's drecky YA sequel.

You think they did it specifically because they were buthurt she didn't win the Nobel Prize?

There are more literary awards than good books release each year, don't waste your time. The writer who said this caused such butthurt that some are still mad, 80 years latter.

>>13998250
>The writer who said this
just give the name, faggot

>>13994729
Margaret can work Atwood, Berndadine, I'd Booker too for Evar, if you catch my drift.

>>13994729
Atwood is a good writer, though she seems to have declined in effectiveness over time. Evaristo is an unheard of, may be good, but the precis of her book sounds ghastly.

As always the prize direction was decided by the selection of the judges. The person who appoints them makes the substantial/ideological decision,

>>13994729
How is it possible for Bernardine Evaristo to be so ugly?

>>13994736
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>>13998502
I was wondering the same thing myself. She looks like the fucking Elephant Man.

>>14000044
Where was this posted?

>>14000063
r/literature