Now That’s a Surprise

Posted 17 October, 2007 in Uncategorized |

Anne Enright has won the 2007 Man-Booker Prize for her novel The Gathering. Enright beat out the establishment favourite, Ian McEwan, and the odds-on bet, Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip.

Before presenting the award, Sir Howard Davies, director of the London School of Economics, said, “I think a little more distance, and critical scepticism, is required by our reviewers, together with greater readiness to notice new names.” I couldn’t agree more.

2 comments to “Now That’s a Surprise”

Panic, October 17th, 2007 at 10:24 am:

• I could not have been more surprised, actually.
  Happy, though. Now I should probably read the darn thing. ;)

Kerry, October 17th, 2007 at 12:35 pm:

• I was hoping M.G. Vassanji would get it for The Assassin’s Song. I may ask for a recount.

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