Lost Booker prize shortlist overlooks Iris Murdoch but plumps for Muriel Spark
Acclaimed Scottish author, who never won the Booker prize during her lifetime, has been shortlisted for a one-off award intended to honour the books which fell through the net in 1970
Muriel Spark missed out on the first ever Booker prize in 1969 to PH Newby, and then again in 1981 to Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Today, four years after she died, one of the grand dames of British literature has been shortlisted for the third time, with her novel The Driver's Seat one of six titles in the running for the Lost Man Booker prize.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 25 March, 2010
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