Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Controversial Writer Up For Prize

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Controversial Writer Up For Prize

    CONTROVERSIAL WRITER UP FOR PRIZE

    BBC NEWS
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/enterta inment/7302362.stm
    2008/03/18 10:57:23 GMT

    Author Elif Shafak, who was prosecuted for "insulting Turkishness"
    in her book The Bastard Of Istanbul has been longlisted for the Orange
    book prize.

    She faced charges for comments made by her characters on the mass
    killings of Armenians in the final years of the Ottoman Empire in
    the 20th Century.

    A court in Istanbul eventually acquitted the novelist.

    Turkish-born Shafak is one of 20 writers who have been longlisted
    for the British prize for women's writing.

    Seven debut novelists have also been included on the list along with
    veteran writers like Deborah Moggach, who is longlisted for her 16th
    novel, In The Dark.

    Anne Enright's The Gathering, which won the Man Booker prize 2007,
    has also been featured.

    There's no such thing as male writing, any more then there's such a
    thing as women's writing. There's just good writing and band writing
    Tim Lott, writer

    Linda Grant, who won the Orange prize in 2002 with When I Lived In
    Modern Times, is nominated again for her latest book, The Clothes On
    Their Backs.

    The prize is open to any woman writing in English, whatever her
    nationality, country of residence, age or subject matter.

    However, writer Tim Lott told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he thought
    the prize was wrong and introducing a male-only book prize for fiction
    was not the solution.

    "I think it would invite massive derision and I would join in with
    that derision. I think the idea that there should be a prize for male
    writing is something I wouldn't want my writing to go into," he said.

    "There's no such thing as male writing, any more then there's such a
    thing as women's writing. There's just good writing and band writing."

    The winner of the £30,000 prize will be announced on 4 June.

    --Boundary_(ID_VmGo6SwDR3c4Hjw7O5HbrA)--

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Working...
X