Jul 072008
Simon Caterson in Saturday’s Age has discovered to his evident surprise that the Booker Prize judges tend to come from England. Worse still, they have “a background that more often than not includes the prestigious British universities and are typically senior prominent academics, reviewers, editors or authors.”
But - and you can hear him trying to unsmack his gob – “there is a tendency for the prize not to go to to people like them.”
Lie down in a darkened room, Simon, and lay off the Foucault. That stuff rots the brain.