Lost Man Booker Prize
The Lost Man Booker Prize was a special edition of the Man Booker Prize , awarded by public vote in 2010 for a book from 1970. It has been described by the New York Times as an act of literary reparation. Books published in 1970 were not eligible for the Man Booker Prize due to a rule change . Until 1970 the prize was awarded to books published the previous year, but from 1971 the prize was awarded to books published in the year of the award ceremony. The award was won by J. G. Farrell for Troubles .
Circumstances of the award
Literary agent and archivist Peter Straus was credited with the idea of awarding a Man Booker Prize for the missing year after wondering why Robertson Davies ' 1970 novel, Fifth Business , was not on the nominations list for the Man Booker Prize was listed. A longlist with 21 titles was presented by the organizers of the Lost Man Booker Prize. The shortlist of six nominated works was selected by Rachel Cooke , Katie Derham and Tobias Hill and made public in London on March 25, 2010, when the voting began on the Man Booker Prize website. The election ended on April 23, 2010. The winner was announced on May 19, 2010.
Four of the nominated authors were dead, only Nina Bawden and Shirley Hazzard were still alive and could comment on their nomination. Bawden called it "really amazing ... I thought I knew all of my books inside out, but I couldn't remember what this book was about". (“Astonishing actually… I thought I knew all my books backwards but I couldn't remember what this one was about”). Hazzard regretted that her husband, Francis Steegmuller , no longer lived to witness this event. J. G. Farrell won the Man Booker Prize in 1973 for The Siege of Krishnapur . Bawden and Muriel Spark had previously been nominated. Tobias Hill said that Patrick White would be spinning in his grave if he won the Lost Man Booker Prize for his book The Vivisector . White was known for having his name removed from the list of nominations for the 1979 Man Booker Prize and for making no secret of his general rejection of awards. However, White's literary estate administrator, Barbara Mobbs, said he had left no written evidence that he would disapprove of a posthumous award and that she would not go around telling them to remove him from the competition.
Award winners
The award was won by JG Farrells Troubles with 38% via a public vote. It received more than twice as many votes as the runner-up. The award came 40 years after the book was published and 30 years after Farrell's death. The award was announced by Antonia Fraser and accepted by Farrell's brother Richard. If Troubles had won the Man Booker Prize in 1970, Farrell would have been the first author to have won it twice because he received it for The Siege of Krishnapur in 1973 . Farrell's literary agent claimed that Farrell would have been excited if he had won the award.
| year | Award winners | title | German title | Longlist |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | JG Farrell | Troubles | Troubles |
|
| Nina Bawden | The Birds on the Trees | Under one roof | ||
| Shirley Hazzard | The Bay of Noon | Addio Napoli | ||
| Mary Renault | Fire from Heaven | Fire from Olympus | ||
| Muriel Spark | The Driver's Seat | Kill me! | ||
| Patrick White | The Vivisector | The painter |
Two works previously on the longlist were subsequently disqualified because they were not published in the UK in 1970. These are The Fire-Dwellers by Margaret Laurence and Head to Toe by Joe Orton . Paul Bailey's Trespasses was subsequently added to the longlist.
literature
- Boyd Tonkin: Casting a novel light on a supposed dark period , The Independent on Sunday . Friday March 26, 2010. Retrieved May 20, 2010.
- Rachel Cooke: The Lost Booker: a judge tells all , The Observer . Sunday March 28, 2010. Retrieved May 20, 2010.
Web links
- Timeline on the official website
Individual evidence
- ^ Motoko Rich: Shortlist Unveiled for 'Lost' Booker Prize , The New York Times . March 26, 2010. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
- ↑ a b c Alison Flood: Lost Booker prize shortlist overlooks Iris Murdoch but plumps for Muriel Spark , The Guardian . March 25, 2010. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
- ↑ a b c Dame Muriel Spark shortlisted for 'lost' Booker Prize , BBC . March 25, 2010. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
- ↑ Belinda Goldsmith: Four dead authors on shortlist for lost “Booker” , Reuters . March 26, 2010. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
- ^ A b Australian authors shortlisted for lost Man Booker Prize , The Sydney Morning Herald . March 26, 2010. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
- ↑ 6 books from 1970 vie for lost Booker , CBC News . March 25, 2010. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
- ↑ a b c Ben Hoyle: Author waits to hear if she has won 'lost Booker' prize 40 years on , The Times . March 26, 2010. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
- ^ Arifa Akbar: Posthumous blow to the author who hated book prizes , The Independent . March 26, 2010. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
- ↑ Rosemary Sorensen: Patrick White on 'Lost Booker' shortlist . The Australian . March 27, 2010. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
- ^ JG Farrell's Troubles wins Lost Booker . In: ABC News , Australian Broadcasting Corporation , May 20, 2010.
- ↑ a b Stephen Adams: JG Farrell wins Lost Man Booker Prize for Troubles . In: The Daily Telegraph , Telegraph Media Group, May 20, 2010.
- ^ 'Lost Booker' for Irish writer JG Farrell . In: The Belfast Telegraph , Independent News and Media , May 20, 2010.
- ↑ Author JG Farrell wins 1970 'lost' Booker Prize . In: BBC News , British Broadcasting Corporation , May 19, 2010. Retrieved May 20, 2010.
- ↑ Mike Collett-White: JG Farrell wins “lost” Booker award for Troubles . In: Reuters , May 19, 2010. Retrieved May 20, 2010.
- ↑ The Lost Man Booker Prize ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at themanbookerprize.com, February 1, 2010 (accessed November 15, 2015).
