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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2013 15:13:44 GMT -5
BBC News reports today that the judging panel for 2014's Man Booker Prize will be chaired by philosopher and writer AC Grayling, with an extra judge added to cope with new rules. For the first time, the prize has been opened to writers from the United States, with any novel originally written in English and published in the UK now eligible to enter. Grayling said 2014 would be a "highly significant year" for the prize. The panel includes American literature professor, Sarah Churchwell. "The Man Booker prize has become an even bigger entity this year, with all fiction in English published worldwide between October 2013 and October 2014 now joining the competition," said Grayling. Until the change was announced in September, the £50,000 prize had been largely restricted to the Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe, and so excluded American writers. Organisers said it would now "recognise, celebrate and embrace" all authors writing in English "whether from Chicago, Sheffield or Shanghai". Grayling said the new-look judging panel faced an "exciting" challenge, adding: "We welcome that challenge, and are now launching ourselves into it with relish." BBC News - Man Booker Prize announces 2014 judging panelI see no reason why Americans should be excluded!
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Post by Gerard on Dec 12, 2013 19:04:14 GMT -5
Oh dear oh dear oh dear! Such sad and shameful news. I have been complaining for years that the T.L.S. too has been taken over by amercians. It would be interesting to find out exactly who are those "organisers" cited by the B.B.C. as being responsible for this change for the worse? What is my reason why amercians should be excluded? I hear you ask. It is that they are in general a cruel and vulgar race, lacking any feeling for taste or proportion. And their warlike barbarism, on display continuously for the past sixty years, should suffice to exclude them from the company and consideration of civilized people. The cultured would do well to have as little truck as they can with such. As a first step holders of americian pass-ports should be denied entry to Britain, and those already there expelled.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2013 3:54:23 GMT -5
If Americans are in general a cruel and vulgar race, lacking any feeling for taste or proportion, they are unlikely to win 2014's Man Booker Prize. To exclude a particular nationality from such a competition devalues the prize for everyone else. If I win the Man Booker Prize for the best novel written in the English language, for example, how do I know that an American has not written a better novel? How do I know that a better novel has not been written in another language? These days, Google will automatically translate foreign text into English for me, so we live in a latter-day Tower of Babel! I therefore propose that the Man Booker Prize for Fiction be opened up to all writers of all languages from 2015. The Man Booker International Prize 2015
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Post by ahinton on Dec 13, 2013 7:42:51 GMT -5
Oh dear oh dear oh dear! Such sad and shameful news. I have been complaining for years that the T.L.S. too has been taken over by amercians. It would be interesting to find out exactly who are those "organisers" cited by the B.B.C. as being responsible for this change for the worse? What is my reason why amercians should be excluded? I hear you ask. It is that they are in general a cruel and vulgar race, lacking any feeling for taste or proportion. And their warlike barbarism, on display continuously for the past sixty years, should suffice to exclude them from the company and consideration of civilized people. The cultured would do well to have as little truck as they can with such. As a first step holders of americian pass-ports should be denied entry to Britain, and those already there expelled. You may indeed complain about such things if you must but, in so doing, such racism not only does you no favours in and of itself but also reveals your attitude - especially in terms of the "warlike barbarism" that you attribute to Americans as a whole - to derive from some of the actions of some American governments rather than on the more general attitudes of the American populace; in any case, given that the recent admittedly disgraceful military involvements of American armed forces have largely been partnered by the involvement of British armed forces, perhaps you might also consier that holders of British EU passports should likewise be denied entry to Britain and those already there expelled, although either such action might be problematic as it would involve enforced deportation of all British citizens and leave Britian populated exclusively by non-British citizens. As to your allegation that Americans are all "lacking any feeling for taste or proportion", I note that you make no effort to explain why you believe this to be the case and I find that well less than surprising, given the facts; what's especially "distasteful" about such a remark is once again its making of blanket conclusions about all Americans as though they are in many senses identical, which is just as much of a nonsense as it would be were you to substitute any other population for the American one.
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