Super Booker - No Pynchon Mention?

[Ghetta Life]

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/news/story.jsp?story=570506

The Booker Prize, currently under fire for concentrating on fashionable and 
quirky writers, will this week attempt to regain its reputation for high 
seriousness with the launch of the "super Booker", a worldwide search for 
the living greats of fiction.

While the winners of the main prize, due to be announced next week, must 
come from Britain or the Commonwealth, the new £60,000 competition will be 
open to all comers.

The IoS understands that the reading list for the inaugural international 
prize - compiled at a recent secret meeting in Rome - already includes V S 
Naipaul, the 2001 Nobel prize-winner from Trinidad; Margaret Atwood, the 
Canadian who won the Booker in 2000; John Updike, the Pulitzer prize-winner; 
Gabriel García Márquez, the master of magic realism; and Philip Roth, whose 
collected works are soon to appear in a Library of America edition.

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