Julian Barnes wins “posh bingo” (Booker Prize) at last
In his acceptance speech for The Sense of an Ending, Barnes said that he felt a kinship with another long-time literary loser, Jorge Luis Borges, who was overlooked for the Nobel Prize year after year.
“When asked, as he constantly was, why he had never won the Nobel Prize, Borges used to reply that there was a cottage industry devoted to not giving Borges the Nobel Prize. Over the last years, in occasional moments of mild paranoia, I have wondered whether there wasn’t some similar, sinister organisation operating over here,” Barnes told the audience at the Guildhall.
“I would like to thank the judges – who I won’t hear a word against – for their wisdom, and the sponsors for their cheque.”
Julian Barnes ‘as relieved as delighted’ to win Man Booker Prize 2011.
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October 19th, 2011 at 21:39
hard or soft copy? :)
October 19th, 2011 at 21:47
signing up for the reading group! thanks!
October 19th, 2011 at 22:02
i’m joining.
October 19th, 2011 at 22:57
Signing up too! (For the reading Reading Group, that is) :)
October 19th, 2011 at 23:10
I want to join, too! :D
October 19th, 2011 at 23:20
I would like to sign up for the reading group! :D
October 19th, 2011 at 23:21
nyikes, not reading carefully.
October 20th, 2011 at 00:03
Count me in :-D
October 20th, 2011 at 02:47
Sign me up! :)
October 20th, 2011 at 03:25
count me in. i survived the blood meridian reading group =)
October 20th, 2011 at 09:19
will sign the pledge.
October 20th, 2011 at 11:37
Sign me up please.
October 20th, 2011 at 12:37
Sign me up.
October 20th, 2011 at 13:52
Hi Ms. J, I’d like to sign up for the reading group too. I’m in the middle of reading through GRR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, but i need a mini break from the series. I absolutely love the books but the constant tension is making me go nuts.
October 20th, 2011 at 14:08
Hurrah for Barnes! I’d like to join too the reading group. I was a War and Peace Reading Support Group diarist, if that’s any assurance. :D
October 20th, 2011 at 14:52
Please sign me up.
October 20th, 2011 at 15:47
checking in and signing up!!! i love book reviews!
October 20th, 2011 at 16:03
Signing up!
October 20th, 2011 at 17:05
bought a copy yesterday. reading it now. Veronica reminds me of Summer from 500 Days of Summer.
October 20th, 2011 at 18:36
Sounds fun. Sign me up please!
October 20th, 2011 at 19:25
I’m in.
Loved Flaubert’s Parrot, Talking it Over and Love, Etc.
October 20th, 2011 at 19:26
Oh but wait I don’t live anywhere near Manila so don’t have them hold a copy for me. Thanks tho!
October 21st, 2011 at 13:05
I’m buying this on my iPad. Sign me up!
October 23rd, 2011 at 10:50
I wanna join… Guess I’ll have to buy my own copy.
October 23rd, 2011 at 12:40
Good to have you in the reading group, balqis. If you can wait till next week we’re doing a raffle (Although we’d start now haha).
October 24th, 2011 at 12:49
Signing up!