{"id":2266,"date":"2010-02-01T13:39:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T20:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/02\/the-lost-man-booker-prize\/"},"modified":"2010-02-01T13:39:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T20:39:48","slug":"the-lost-man-booker-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/01\/the-lost-man-booker-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Man Booker Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100201\/ap_en_ot\/eu_britain_lost_booker\" target=\"_blank\">from AP via Yahoo! News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>&#8216;Lost Booker Prize&#8217; to be awarded for 1970 novel<\/h1>\n<p>LONDON \u2013 More than three decades after\u00a0<span style=\"border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #0066cc; cursor: pointer\" id=\"lw_1265025540_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Iris Murdoch<\/span>\u00a0won Britain&#8217;s top\u00a0<span style=\"border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #0066cc; cursor: pointer\" id=\"lw_1265025540_1\" class=\"yshortcuts\">literary award<\/span>, and a decade after her death, she has a chance to win again.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lilolia.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/man-booker-prize-logo.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"175\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/>The author is up against 21 other writers who published novels in English in 1970 for the &#8220;lost&#8221;\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1265025540_2\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Booker Prize<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The books were never considered for the prize at the time. The reason? The Booker was originally awarded for any book published in the previous year. But in 1971, it became a prize for the best novel published that year.<\/p>\n<p>That meant that a raft of books published in 1970 were left out in the cold, and the Lost\u00a0<span style=\"border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #0066cc; cursor: pointer\" id=\"lw_1265025540_3\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Man Booker Prize<\/span>\u00a0is an attempt to remedy the oversight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our longlist demonstrates that 1970 was a remarkable year for fiction written in English,&#8221; Ion Trewin, the prizes&#8217; literary director, said Monday. &#8220;Recognition for these novels and the eventual winner is long overdue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Murdoch&#8217;s &#8220;<span id=\"lw_1265025540_4\" class=\"yshortcuts\">A Fairly Honourable Defeat<\/span>&#8221; is up against 21 other works, including &#8220;The Fire Dwellers&#8221; by<span id=\"lw_1265025540_5\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Margaret Laurence<\/span>,\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1265025540_6\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Len Deighton<\/span>&#8216;s &#8220;Bomber,&#8221; &#8220;<span style=\"cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial\" id=\"lw_1265025540_7\" class=\"yshortcuts\">A Guilty Thing Surprised<\/span>,&#8221; by\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1265025540_8\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Ruth Rendell<\/span>, and &#8220;A Clubbable Woman,&#8221; by\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1265025540_9\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Reginald Hill<\/span>. All the books on the list are still in print and available today.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100201\/ap_en_ot\/eu_britain_lost_booker\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Yahoo! News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AP via Yahoo! News &#8216;Lost Booker Prize&#8217; to be awarded for 1970 novel LONDON \u2013 More than three decades after\u00a0Iris Murdoch\u00a0won Britain&#8217;s top\u00a0literary award, and a decade after her death, she has a chance to win again. The author is up against 21 other writers who published novels in English in 1970 for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}