Delighted to see David Mitchell back in the Booker Prize hunt

[Ya Sam]

Man, looking at the shortlist of the candidates for Man Booker I keep asking 
myself, what the hell has happened to British literature? Will evere a 
writer of Anthony Burgess calibre appear? For the time being the British 
literary landscape looks like a Dali wasteland with two grotesque figures 
looming on the horizon: David Mitchell and Lawrence Norfolk, the best that 
they have.


>From: Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Delighted to see David Mitchell back in the Booker Prize hunt
>Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:19:12 -0400
>
>the following extracted from http://www.themanbookerprize.com/
>
>The judging panel for the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction today (Monday
>14th August) announces the longlist of books for this year.
>
>The longlist of 19 books was chosen from 112 entries; 95 were submitted
>for the prize and 17 were called in by the panel of judges.
>
>Chair of judges, Hermione Lee, comments:
>
>"Judging the Man Booker Prize puts you through almost as many emotions as
>there are in the novels. We’ve tried to be careful and critical judges as
>well as being passionately involved. We have many regrets about some of
>the novels we’ve left off, and we could easily have had a longlist of
>about 30 books, but we’re delighted with the variety, the originality,
>the drama and craft, the human interest and the strong voices in this
>longlist. It’s a list in which famous established novelists rub shoulders
>with little known newcomers. We hope that people will leap at it for
>their late summer reading and make up their own shortlist.”
>
>The judging panel for the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction is: Hermione
>Lee (Chair); Simon Armitage, poet and novelist; Candia McWilliam, award
>winning novelist; critic Anthony Quinn and actor Fiona Shaw.
>The 2006 shortlist will be announced on Thursday 14th September at a
>press conference at Man Group’s London office. The winner will be
>announced on Tuesday 10th October at an awards ceremony at Guildhall,
>London.
>
>The longlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006 is as follows;
>
>Carey, Peter Theft: A Love Story (Faber & Faber)
>Desai, Kiran The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton)
>Edric, Robert Gathering the Water (Doubleday)
>Gordimer, Nadine Get a Life (Bloomsbury)
>Grenville, Kate The Secret River (Canongate)
>Hyland, M.J. Carry Me Down (Canongate)
>Jacobson, Howard Kalooki Nights (Jonathan Cape)
>Lasdun, James Seven Lies (Jonathan Cape)
>Lawson, Mary The Other Side of the Bridge (Chatto & Windus)
>McGregor, Jon So Many Ways to Begin (Bloomsbury)
>Matar, Hisham In the Country of Men (Viking)
>Messud, Claire The Emperor’s Children (Picador)
>Mitchell, David Black Swan Green (Sceptre)
>Murr, Naeem The Perfect Man (William Heinemann)
>O’Hagan, Andrew Be Near Me (Faber & Faber)
>Robertson, James The Testament of Gideon Mack (Hamish Hamilton)
>St Aubyn, Edward Mother’s Milk (Picador)
>Unsworth, Barry The Ruby in her Navel (Hamish Hamilton)
>Waters, Sarah The Night Watch (Virago)

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